ould vain re

hy lover

e, a wide do

St. Kenelm's Church, and superintending them was a tall dark-haired young man. There was a start of mutual recognition; and by and by

I heard you

ss Paula! This

ister Mena, whose elder companion

ether you are

e Goyle, at Arnscomb

ain." And he turned aside to gi

those sweet designs

not te

ing to execute th

again. We have not heard of E

on you?" sai

igh School, and Hubert works for this firm. They are not what you call in society, and our sister is all for

nd stuck up," said Vera, "a

e was so kind

. "She would be kind to a workman

h?" said Paula. "No, indeed! not if he were Fra Angel

give him a romantic air; and Sister Philomena listened, much impressed by the interchange of question and answer about "Edie and Nellie," and the dear Warings,

cried, approaching with his mother, whereupon

ear, what a complication! Poor dear fe

him in spite of all the worl

Merrifield is not half s

frivolity," said Paula; "yet see how the M.A. en

ved altogether in the true love of the damsel and Hubert Delrio, who had been wont to single out the prettiest of the girls at Filstead, and she was resolved to do all she could in the

efully-selected tales, where they were more the necessary machinery than the main interest, for she had been bred up in an orphanage by Sister Beata, and ha

decided Catholic principles; he was regular at Church services, and had dined or supped at the Vicarage. The intercourse, as the girls had explained, had been sanctioned by Mrs. Best in their native town, where all parties were well known, and thus there could be no harm in letting i

, and on the other of child martyrs. Now and then there was a reference to the chilliness and hardship of living with an unsympathising sister, and being obliged to go to churches of which they did not

he certainly was enough attracted by Vera's pretty face and lively graces to make his sisters think him very absurd; but hi

ish might be going on there; but Magdalen had not decided on the mutual fairness of the two congregations, and deferred investigation till Agatha should come home, when she would have a reasonable, if cold, person to deal with. Nor did Thekla's chatter excite any suspicio