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 Giles, smiling and nodding, you are the sweetest little soul amongst them all!"

Laughing and delighted, she was dancing away; but Lady Kendover, gently stopping her, said, "You are too young, yet, my dear, to be aware of the impropriety of making private letters public."

"Well, then, at least, Miss Ellis," she cried, "I will tell you that one paragraph, for I have read it so often and often that I have got it by heart, it's so very beautiful! 'You will entreat Miss Arbe, my dear Lady Barbara, since she is so good as to take the direction of this concert-enterprize, to employ this little loan to the best advantage for Miss Ellis, and the most to her satisfaction. Loan I call it, for Miss Ellis, I know, will pay it, if not in money, at least in a thousand sweetnesses, of a thousand times more value.'"

Ellis, touched with unspeakable pleasure, was forced to put her hand before her eyes.