's
displeasure, she really deserved that displeasure, and was soon reduced
into the power of her enemy.

'The princess, you see, could have no happiness till she returned again
to her obedience, and had confessed her fault. And though in this story
all this is brought about by fairies, yet the moral of it is, that
whenever we give way to our passions, and act contrary to our duty, we
must be miserable.

'But let me once more observe to you, that these fairies are only
intended to amuse you; for remember that the misery which attended the
Princess Hebe, on her disobedience, was the natural consequence of that
disobedience, as well as the natural consequence of her amendment and
return to her duty, was content and happiness for the rest of her life.'

Here good Mrs. Teachum ceased, and Miss Jenny, in the name of the
company, thanked her for her kind instructions, and promised that they
would endeavour, to the utmost of their power, to imprint them on their
memory for the rest of their lives.






This morning our little society rose very early, and were all dressed
with neatness and elegance, in order to go to church. Mrs. Teachum put
Miss Polly Suckling before her, and the rest followed, two and two, with
perfect regularity.

Mrs. Teachum expressed great approbation, that her scholars, at this
solemn place, showed no sort of childishness, notwithstanding their
tender age; but behaved with decency and devotion suitable to the
occasion.

They went again in the same order, and behaved again in the same manner,
in the afternoon; and when they returned from church, two young ladies,
Lady Caroline and Lady Fanny Delun, who had formerly known Miss Jenny
Peace, and who were at present in that neighbourhood with their uncle,
came to make her a visit.

Lady Caroline was fourteen years of age, tall and genteel in her person,
of a fair complexion, and a regular set of features so that, upon the
whole, she was generally complimented with being very handsome.

Lady Fanny, who was one year younger than her sister, was rather little
of her age, of a brown complexion, her features irregular; and, in
short, she had not the least real pretensions to beauty.

It was but lately that their father was, by the death of his eldest
brother, become Earl of Delun; so that their titles were new, and they
had not been long used to your ladyship.

Miss Jenny Peace received them as her old acquaintance: however, she
paid them