rvice, comforted by a pension and glorified by a
privy-councillorship. He was an acute and accomplished man, practised
in the world, with great self-control, yet devoted to his daughter, the
only offspring of a wife whom he had lost early and loved much.

Deprived at a tender age of that parent of whom she would have become
peculiarly the charge, Henrietta Temple found in the devotion of her
father all that consolation of which her forlorn state was susceptible.
She was not delivered over to the custody of a governess, or to the even
less sympathetic supervision of relations. Mr. Temple never permitted
his daughter to be separated from him; he cherished her life, and he
directed her education. Resident in a city which arrogates to itself,
not without justice, the title of the German Athens, his pupil availed
herself of all those advantages which were offered to her by the
instruction of the most skilful professors. Few persons were more
accomplished than Henrietta Temple even at an early age; but her rare
accomplishments were not her most remarkable characteristics. Nature,
which had accorded to her that extraordinary beauty we have attempted
to describe, had endowed her with great talents and a soul of sublime
temper.

It was often remarked of Henrietta Temple (and the circumstance may
doubtless be in some degree accounted for by the little interference
and influence of women in her education) that she never was a girl. She
expanded at once from a charming child into a magnificent woman. She had
entered life very early, and had presided at her father's table for a
year before his recall from his mission. Few women in so short a period
had received so much homage; but she listened to compliments with a
careless though courteous ear, and received more ardent aspirations with
a smile. The men, who were puzzled, voted her cold and heartless;
but men should remember that fineness of taste, as well as apathy of
temperament, may account for an unsuccessful suit. Assuredly Henrietta
Temple was not deficient in feeling; she entertained for her father
sentiments almost of idolatry, and those more intimate or dependent
acquaintances best qualified to form an opinion of her character spoke
of her always as a soul of infinite tenderness.

Notwithstanding their mutual devotion to each other, there were not
many points of resemblance between the characters of Mr. Temple and
his daughter; she was remarkable for a frankness of demean