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 *lutions procured great praise from the sergeant, to which she would listen with much complacency. She often would make comparisons between this heroic youth, and the various other teachers of his sex, and declared to her intimates, that he was far before the dancing-master himself. "To be sure, Mr. Cotillion is a very pretty man, but Mr. Sycamore is a very pretty and a very fine man." Notwithstanding the strict vigilance of boarding schools, the sergeant found means to make a conquest of one of the teachers, no very difficult achievement; and thereby to have various opportunities of conversing with the misses entrusted to her charge: and how could he employ his time better, than in giving them private lessons? Practising the military steps, Miss Dartwell became distinguished for free and easy carriage, and the improvement of her shapes. Soon after