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 the leaves getting green, and the flowers springing up every day. I shall be called in to help your toilet, as you have helped mine, and to go with you to Church, though not, alas! as your bridesmaid! Ah! whom shall we have for that duty?"

"Pshaw!" said Ellinor, smiling through her tears.

While the sisters were thus engaged, and Madeline was trying with her innocent kindness of heart to exhilarate the spirits so naturally depressed, of her doting sister, the sound of carriage-wheels was heard in the distance; nearer, nearer,—now the sound stopped, as at the gate;—now fast, faster, fast as the postilions could ply whip and the horses tear along, while the groups in the churchyard ran forth to gaze, and the bells rang merrily all the while, two chaises whirled by Madeline's window, and stopped at the porch of the house: the sisters had flown in surprise to the casement.