academy.
    Remarkable had been one of the listeners to Mr. Grant, and returned with her
resentment, which had been not a little excited by the language of the Judge,
somewhat softened by reflection and the worship. She recollected the youth of
Elizabeth, and thought it no difficult task, under present appearances, to
exercise that power indirectly, which hitherto she had enjoyed undisputed. The
idea of being governed, or of being compelled to pay the deference of servitude,
was absolutely intolerable; and she had already determined within herself, some
half-dozen times, to make an effort, that should at once bring to an issue the
delicate point of her domestic condition. But as often as she met the dark,
proud eye of Elizabeth, who was walking up and down the apartment, musing on the
scenes of her youth, and the change in her condition, and perhaps the events of
the day, the housekeeper experienced an awe, that she would not own to herself
could be excited by any thing mortal. It, however, checked her advances, and for
some time held her tongue-tied. At length she determined to commence the
discourse, by entering on a subject that was apt to level all human
distinctions, and in which she might display her own abilities.
    »It was quite a wordy sarmont that Parson Grant give us to-night,« said
Remarkable. - »Them church ministers be commonly smart sarmonizers; but they
write down their idees, which is a great privilege. I don't think that by nater
they are as tonguey speakers for an off-hand discourse, as the standing-order
ministers.«
    »And what denomination do you distinguish as the standing-order?« inquired
Miss Temple, with some surprise.
    »Why, the Presbyterans, and Congregationals, and Baptists too, for-ti-'now,
and all sich as don't go on their knees to prayer.«
    »By that rule, then, you would call those who belong to the persuasion of my
father, the sitting-order,« observed Elizabeth.
    »I'm sure I've never heer'n 'em spoken of by any other name than Quakers, so
called,« returned Remarkable, betraying a slight uneasiness. »I should be the
last to call them otherwise, for I never in my life used a disparaging tarm of
the Judge, or any of his family. I've always set store by the Quakers, they are
so pretty-spoken, clever people; and it's a wonderment to me, how