to feel jealousy.
The eldest Miss C_+ remained single, and, whenever she heard of a splendid marriage, longed to forbid the banns.
The dying image of Seymour was long present to Julia's imagination, and the parting words he had uttered were engraven on her heart. When the allsubduing influence of time had soothed her sorrows into greater tranquillity, she found consolation in the duties of religion, the exercise of benevolence, and the society of persons of understanding and merit. To such people her acquaintance was highly valuable,

and she lived admired, respected, and beloved. She refused many honourable offers of marriage, and devoted much of her time to the improvement of Seymour's child, whom she loved with the most partial fondness. But the idea of its father still continued, at times, to embitter the satisfaction of her life; which, but for that one unconquered weakness, would have been, above the common lot, fortunate and happy.