n, she could not avoid feeling these things;
but having a nature thoroughly just and loving, she speedily put down
all thoughts that were not unselfish and worthy to be entertained.

Rose's attitude also pained her. She was indifferent and even proud,
and she seemed to take a pleasure in snubbing Antony before her
family. So Adriana made her adieus as quickly as possible, and
hastened back to her child; for he was just then cutting his teeth at
the peril of his life. Never had the little one been so precious to
her. She did not permit her lips to utter a complaint, but there was a
great unspoken sense of injustice at her heart; and she was hardly
comforted by Harry's return to dinner in high good temper; for he
could talk of nothing but Rose, and Rose's baby, and the beautiful
presents she had brought for every one.

This was but the beginning of a life which did not promise anything
but a constant trial of patience to Adriana; for Rose had that power
which some women possess of engaging every man they know to do them
service. "There is only Harry that can help me in arranging my social
affairs," she said. "Antony employs his whole time in nursing me and
the baby. Sometimes I wish for a reasonable husband, such as you are,
Harry. How Yanna must enjoy being left to herself sometimes!" she
cried; and then, with a cunning little laugh, "Mamma tells me you are
just as naughty as ever! For shame, sir!" And Harry laughed back, not
unpleasantly; and then he offered to help his sister in any way he
could.

"Mamma says that Yanna refused to ask that old maid to get me into her
set, but I would not be in her set for anything. It is too stupid, and
it is proper beyond endurance. We want something Frenchy and funny,
and just a little rapid; nothing wrong, of course, Harry, the proper
road; only a gallop, and not a crawl, on it."

On these lines dinner followed dinner, and dance followed dance; and
pretty Mrs. Van Hoosen became the leader in the set her ambitions
leaned towards. The giddiest girls, the young sporting men equally
frivolous, who lived only to have what they called "a good time,"
gathered round her. To such entertainments it was the merest form to
ask Adriana, and as her health was delicate, she had a suitable excuse
without bringing her principles forward to be made a matter of mirth.
But with Antony it was different.

"It is a long watch, and a weary one, for I am on guard day and night,
Yanna," he said to his