d for the whole affair they were. Arthur returned, but it
was not easy for him to get through the crowd to the place where he had
left his wife and sisters, and when he reached it, he saw that it would
not be easy to get away again. So as he could see and hear very well
where he was, and as Rose seemed quite satisfied with her place, and
with the companionship of her little friend, Miss Etta Goldsmith, he
contented himself where he was.

Miss Goldsmith had come to town to see her brother take his diploma as
doctor of medicine, and she was in a fever of anxiety till "dear Dick,"
had got his precious bit of parchment in his hands. And after that,
till he had performed his duty as orator of his class, and had bidden
farewell to each and all, in English so flowing and flowery, that she
was amazed, as well as delighted, and very grateful to his classmates
for the applause, which they did not spare. Rose sat beside the eager
little girl, so grave and pale, by contrast, perhaps, that Arthur leaned
over, and asked her if she were ill, or only very tired of it all. Then
she brightened.

"There is great deal more of it, is there not? I must not be tired yet.
Why don't you find your way over to Fanny and Graeme?"

"Where are they? Ah! yes, I see them over there among the great folks--
and Harry, too, no less, and his friend and partner. And that bonny
little Amy is not far-away, I'll venture to say. No. I shall stay
where I am for the present."

Miss Goldsmith did not feel bound to be specially interested in anybody
or anything, except her big brother and his bit of parchment. And so,
when he had given her a nod and a smile, as he came down from the dais,
crumpling his papers in his big hands, she was ready to look about and
enjoy herself. And to the unaccustomed eyes of the country girl, there
was a great deal worth seeing.

"How beautifully the ladies are dressed! How pretty the spring fashions
are! I feel like an old dowdy! Who is that lady in blue? What a love
of a hat! And your jacket! It is a beauty!"

It was through such a running fire of questions and exclamations that
Rose listened to all that was going on. There was a good deal more to
be said, for the law students were addressed by a gentleman, whose boast
it seemed to be, that he had once been a law student himself. Then they
had some Latin muttered over them, and their heads tapped by the
Principal, and some one else gave them their bits of p