She early contracted a friendship for the little Emily, who was indeed for the most part committed to her care.

Emily, on her side, fully repaid the affection of her instructress, and learned with great docility the few accomplishments Mrs.Jakeman was able to communicate.

But most of all she imbibed her cheerful and artless temper, that extracted the agreeable and encouraging from all events, and prompted her to communicate her sentiments, which were never of the cynical cast, without modification or disguise.

Besides the advantages Emily derived from Mrs.Jakeman, she was permitted to take lessons from the masters who were employed at Tyrrel Place for the instruction of her cousin; and indeed, as the young gentleman was most frequently indisposed to attend to them, they would commonly have had nothing to do, had it not been for the fortunate presence of Miss Melville.

Mrs.Tyrrel therefore encouraged the studies of Emily on that score; in addition to which she imagined that this living exhibition of instruction might operate as an indirect allurement to her darling Barnabas, the only species of motive she would suffer to be presented.