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him not to attempt waking him. do," said Rose, "brother Stephen will never have you to the mill." This threat was hardly sufficient to keep Frank at his post; and now he touched him just with the tip of his finger, then again he pretended to lay the clothes straight, then he went to the window, and he coughed as loud as he could. At last he succeeded, and baby opened his eye to the great delight of the young prisoner. But no sooner was his eye opened, than it closed again, not indeed from weariness, but he saw not the object he sought, and he was fearful: at length hearing no one speak to him, he raised himself on his little fat elbow, and called loudly for Stephen: Rose immediately ran up to him, but every effort was ineffectual, he would not suffer her to touch him, and until his father returned, he sat vainly attempting to dress himself. But the manly child shed no tears, nor betrayed other impatience, except now and then calling," Stephen, Stephen," to the great amusement of every member of the family who gathered round him. The fond father was soon at his side, and his boy's hand was clasped round him, and, "Where you been? where you go? where Fanny? where uncle Michael? Get my hat." Not yet my boy, we must have

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untimely end. He was engaged in a quarrel at a public-house, and following the person (in a hurry) down the stairs his foot slipped, and his head struck forcibly on some of the stones which lay at the bottom of the rough staircase: he received a violent blow on the temple: his medical attendant saw no immediate danger, but the fever which succeeded, was increased by the indiscreet use of strong liquor. I'm sorry to say his end was very awful. No contrition, but a rebellious, hardened spirit was manifest through the whole. His wife and children are come to the parish, but should she behave prudently, she will not want friends. Poor Mr. Kemp was never forgiven that removal, and Mrs. Fairbrother has gone so far as to say, it was the ruin of the family. Mr. Cooper, whose love of justice you well know, was so displeased by this, that he called on her, and insisted she should retract this unjust aspersion; he assured her if she did not, he should regard her as a person dangerous, and no longer consider her as an object worthy his accustomed attention. This alarmed her, for Mr. Cooper is a most liberal benefactor in many ways to this perverse woman: and Jemima, my dear, though you don't quite agree with Mr. Cooper, I believe in some

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things, you know how very good he has been to this woman." "Yes, mother, Mr. Cooper is very liberal.'

Stephen perceived that Mrs. Finch seemed pained that her daughter's praise of Mr. Cooper was qualified, for Jemima did not speak of him in the warm terms which she thought he merited, she said a few minutes after, "Your Mr. Lascelles is every thing with Jemima, pray how does he do, Mr. Stephen?" "Very well, Madam, he goes on doing every body good." "Oh yes, he does every body good, I dare say, he is a very good sort of man I believe but I think there are other good men in the world besides Mr. Lascelles." Jemima was silent. Stephen only replied, "Certainly, Ma'am. How is your son, Madam, Mr. James Finch?" Nearly as tall as you, Stephen, he makes his mother look an old woman.' "Master was saying, Madam, he expected him in our parts.

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Yes, it will not be his fault if he does not soon make one of your family at the Brow, but I hardly know how to spare him. You may tell Mr. Kemp I do not forget his promise to be a father to this boy if ever he loses his mother," and the tear trembled in her eye as she spoke. "I am sure I don't know any one I would trust him to sooner. I am happy to say

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he is very steady." "Yes," said you may tell Mr. Kemp tha give him no anxiety, Stephen, th be quite content to stay at home.' said Mrs. Finch, with a very pecu "he is almost as good as his s. your master." Jemima walked av out saying one word, and Stej mired, what he justly thought conduct.

This young woman had made mind to be guided completely by t of God, this was her first detern. every other was contingent: all h were fixed beyond time; she wa traveller on a wide plain, who 1 that his path lies to the west, k eye on some bright illuminated spo distance, and tramples beneath 1 without ever knowing it, thousands flowrets which attract other travell him they are nothing, his object is and all which can divert him fro end is indifferent to him, or disre by him. Jemima carefully avoid that could offend her mother, and contended for immaterial things. would often say to herself, "Dea cellent mother, in nothing that is terial or indifferent will I ever c ce."

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Thus resolved, life glided by, its trials were met in a spirit of resignation, and its pleasures hailed with gratitude and warmth, and in all essential points the firmness of this excellent girl was never to be shaken. "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint: ye must be born again: without me ye can do nothing: he will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask it: look unto me and be ye saved." In the spirit and the letter these texts she never would resign, and it was on these subjects alone, where every pharisaical pretension was shaken to the root, that Jemima and her mother ever disagreed.

Mr. Cooper, the amiable, charitable Mr. Cooper, was Mrs. Finch's standard of perfection, and she knew she stood high in his opinion, and was perfectly astonished, that such a young girl as Jemima should have an opinion on such subjects: and poor Jemima was sometimes astonished herself, but then she would say again,

My poor mother, I cannot give it up. 'Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,' and oh how precious to me is thy soul, my mother." How often she prayed, and how fervently, can hardly be conceived by any who do not feel like anxiety for the eternal happiness of their relatives. Of all this the mother was ig