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304 Eveline at all. This is a scene in Australia, and the girl on horseback is Amy Staunton, our half—sister, Edith. The vignette shows the likeness still better." "Amy Staunton! Anthony, Australia! how came they here?" asked sister and aunt almost in a breath.

"I got them at Copeland's at Millmount; you know they have a daughter-in-law from Australia, and she knows our sister, and has these portraits. Did you ever see such a likeness?"

"It is wonderful, certainly," said Aunt Anne, " but it is a likeness that does not please me. Your poor papa suffered too much in that marriage; a selﬁsh, worldly, unprincipled thing it was in Lady Eveline to marry him when her heart was given to another, all because your papa was rich, and then so shortly after his death to marry that Gerald Staunton in such unbecoming, such indecent haste. Your poor grandpapa felt it terribly; as for you two poor dears, whom she deserted, you were too young to feel the disgrace; but I can assure you it preyed upon me. And this is her daughter and his!"

"Let me look at her again, Anthony," said Edith. "I suppose you think her pretty."

"Beautiful, Edith, and I hear she is as good as she is beautiful. I 'am going to write to her