d behave herself with more propriety. A sad mistake;
for this woman proved a world of trouble and sorrow, as she was both
weak and wicked, and her conduct after they reached Canada occasioned
her much anxiety and uneasiness.

Flora remonstrated with her, but she found her insolently indifferent to
her orders. "She was free," she said, "from all engagement the moment
she landed in Canada. She should be a lady there, as good as other
folks, and she was not going to slave herself to death as a nurse girl,
tramping about with a heavy child in her arms all day. Mrs. Lyndsay
could not compel her to wait upon her on board ship, and she might wait
upon herself for what she cared."

"But how do you expect to get your living in Canada?" replied Flora.
"You must work there, or starve."

"Indeed!" said Hannah, tossing up her head. "It's not long that I shall
stay in Canada. I'm going home with Captain Williams. He has promised to
divorce his wife and marry me, when he gets back to Scotland."

"Marry you, and divorce his wife! the nice kind woman you saw on board
the night we sailed! Can you lend a willing ear to such idle tales? He
can neither divorce his wife nor marry you, poor, foolish girl--wicked,
I should add, for your conduct, when your situation is taken into
consideration, is an aggravation of hardened guilt."

"It's no business of yours, at any rate," sobbed Hannah, who had tears
always at command. "I don't mean to lose the chance of being a lady in
order to keep my word with you. You may get somebody else to wait on you
and the child; I won't."

And she flounced back to her berth, and cried till the Captain went to
console her.

This matter led to a serious quarrel with old Boreas. Lyndsay reproached
him with tampering with his servant, and setting her against her
employers, and threatened to write to Mr. Gregg and expose his conduct.

Boreas was first in a towering passion. He bullied, and swore, and
cursed the impudent jade, who, he declared, was more competent to
corrupt his morals than he was to corrupt hers. That she was his
mistress, he did not deny; but as to the tale of divorcing his Jean for
such a ---- as her, none but a fool could believe it for a moment.

He promised, however, but very reluctantly, to conduct himself towards
the girl properly for the future, and he remained as sulky and as rude
as a bear to the Lyndsays for the rest of the voyage.

As to little Josey, she did not at all miss the at