ot wish to talk about it, forebore to
question her on the subject.

As soon as her lessons were over, Fanny took her doll up to her room,
and reintroduced her to Nancy. Norman who had followed her, watched her
with an envious eye, as she made the two dolls talk to each other.

After she had played with them for some time, she put Miss Lucy on her
bed, and she and Norman went down into the drawing-room.

Norman had not given up his evil intention of putting Miss Lucy out of
the way. He forgot all his sweet sister's forbearance, and
loving-kindness towards him; and still allowed that terrible feeling of
envy to rankle in his heart.

A few days before, Mrs Leslie and her daughter had received an
invitation to pay a visit, with the children, to some friends in
Scotland. Captain Vallery was unable to accompany them, being detained
in London, but he expected shortly to follow. Fanny was delighted at
the thought of visiting the Highlands, and seeing the beautiful lakes
and streams, and mountains, she had heard so much of.

"I don't care for those sort of things," observed Norman, as he heard
their plans discussed at dinner.

"Shall we have elephants to ride on, or tiger shooting?" he asked, "that
would suit papa and me best."

Fanny burst into a fit of merry laughter, at which Norman got very
angry.

"Don't you know that there are no elephants or tigers in this part of
the world?" inquired Fanny. "The only wild animals are deer, and I
always think how cruel it is to shoot such beautiful creatures, when I
hear of people hunting them."

"Perhaps papa and I will go out and shoot them, only women and girls
think shooting cruel," said Norman scornfully.

"A little boy should not speak disrespectfully of the tender feelings of
women and girls," observed Mrs Leslie. "Fanny is very right when she
expresses her sorrow, at hearing of deer being killed merely for sport,
though if they were allowed to live in great numbers they would prevent
other more useful animals from finding pasture."

"I say it is very good fun, shooting animals of all sorts," exclaimed
Norman.

"You should not speak to your grandmamma in that tone," said Mrs
Vallery.

Norman always grew angry when rebuked, and muttered something to
himself, of which no one took notice.

After dinner Fanny remained with her granny and mamma to do some work,
while Norman stole out of the room. He stood in the hall for some
minutes, and then creeping upstairs