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 desiring now to be left to herself. He, judging by the lateness of the hour and her own silence that she must be asleep, did not disturb her.

There was an evident change in her the next morning, but being full of changes these times, no comment was made. It was the subdued expression of a soul in which suffering and sorrow had been assuaged by a special revelation of inward peace. Neither Walter nor his mother could sympathize with her in the peculiar spiritual experience through which the singular combination of her mental powers led her, which fact, doubtless, accounted for the extraordinary affinity existing between herself and her father, whose organization her own resembled in some of its striking points.

It was instinct, more powerful than any outward demonstration of affection, that drew them together even in her babyhood, through which he derived his great influence over her.

At breakfast Walter joked her some in the course of the conversation upon the evening's entertainment, about the enjoyment she lost, to which she quietly replied that she had enjoyed herself at home. Interesting herself in her mother's plans with more spirit than was her wont, and Walter being absent, a quiet, yet happy time they had, which was not interrupted by a single visitor. Human nature is so magnetic that we cannot resist the contagious influences arising from the emotions of joy or grief. If a person is happy an involuntary radiation unconsciously raises the spirits of all within its sphere.

Rosalind diffused this peaceful contentment over