er-exertion. The complaint was of long standing,
and must have made progress some time or other; and he said that he was
convinced that, as she said to Aunt Geoffrey, she had rather have been
here than anywhere else. She said she could only be sorry for grandpapa
and grandmamma's sake, but that for herself it was great happiness to
have been to Knight Sutton Church once more; and she was most thankful
that she had come to die in my father's home, after seeing us well
settled here, instead of leaving us to come to it as a strange place."

"How little we guessed it was for that," said Henrietta. "O what were we
doing? But if it made her happy--"

"Just imagine what to-day would have been if we were at Rocksand," said
Fred. "I, obliged to go back to school directly, and you, taking leave
of everything there which would seem to you so full of her; and Uncle
Geoffrey, just bringing you here without any time to stay with you, and
the place and people all strange. I am sure that she who thought so much
for you, must have rejoiced that you are at home here already."

"Home!" said Henrietta, "how determinedly we used to call it so! But O,
that my wish should have turned out in such a manner! If it has been all
overruled so as to be happiness to her, as I am sure it has, I cannot
complain; but I think I shall never wish again, or care for my own way."

"The devices and desires of our own hearts!" said Fred.

"I don't think I shall ever have spirit enough to be wilful for my own
sake," proceeded Henrietta. "Nothing will ever be the same pleasure to
me, as when she used to be my other self, and enjoy it all over again
for me; so that it was all twofold!" Here she hid her face, and her
tears streamed fast, but they were soft and calm; and when she saw that
Fred also was much overcome, she recalled her energies in a minute.

"But, Fred, I may well be thankful that I have you, which is far more
than I deserve; and as long as we do what she wished, we are still
obeying her. I think at last I may get something of the right sort of
feeling; for I am sure I see much better now what she and grandpapa used
to mean when they talked about dear papa. And now do you like for me to
read to you?"

Few words more require to be said of Frederick and Henrietta Langford.
Knight Sutton Hall was according to their mother's wish, their home;
and there Henrietta had the consolation, during the advancing spring and
summer, of watching her brother's