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 HiZZIZT X-L3TE5EAIL Her brother said nothing, but finished the article in silence, and spoke no more until she rose to go home. Then he laid his hand on her shoulder, and said, in a serious tone : • • H ww, dear " (he had never called her dear bef ore), 64 now, dear, leave it to other women to make shirts and darn stockings, and do you devote yourself to this." And so she did. With immense perseverance, and after encountering every sort of discouragement, she reached the public ear, by- writing stories in illustration
 * the truths : political economy. For a time she was

the most popular story-writer in England, and the aid of by cabinet ministers, as well as by lost every important periodical. She eful a woman, that we must forgive hatever mistakes of judgment and temper we may lament l her autobiography. She loved America almost as tough she had been born upon its soil, and Americans ust take her censures in good part. During her residence in the United States, she sacrificed her popularity, and At one of their me which she braved th with full knowledge in defence of their { event, as given in even risked her personal safety, by ' cause of the detested abolitionists, etings in Boston, in 1835, to attend i fury of a mob, she deliberately, and of what her, action involved, spoke rinciples. Her own narrative of the hex Autobiography, is of singular "In the midst of the proceedings of the meeting, a note was handed to me written in pencil on the back of the hymn which the party were singing. It was from Mr. Loring. and these were his words : 44 * Knowing your opinions, I just ask you whether you would object to give a word of sympathy to those who are suffering here for what you have advocated elsewhere. It would afford great comfort.'
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