"I ought to be thankful.

I know it is an honour, and I am quite sure I should be grieved if they did not all come to me and consult me as they do.

I had better not have complained, and yet I am glad I did, for I like you to understand my difficulties." "And, indeed, I wish to enter into them, and do or say anything in my power to help you.

But I don't know anything that can be of so much comfort as the knowledge that He who laid the burden on you, will help you to bear it." "Yes," said Margaret, pausing; and then, with a sweet look, though a heavy sigh, she said, "It is very odd how things turn out! I always had a childish fancy that I would be useful and important, but I little thought how it would be! However, as long as Richard is in the house, I always feel secure about the others, and I shall soon be downstairs myself.

Don't you think dear papa in better spirits ?" "I thought so to-day,"-- and here the doctor returned, talking of Abbotstoke Grange, where he had certainly been much pleased.