"Rosamond Oliver," said he，"is about to be married to Mr. Granby，one of the best connected and most estimable residents in from her father yesterday."

His sisters looked at each other and at me; we all three looked at him: he was serene as glass.

"The match must have been got up hastily," said Diana: "they cannot have known each other long."

But where there are no obstacles to a union，as in the present case，where the connection is in every point desirable，delays are Frederic gives up to them，can be refitted for their reception."

The first time I found St. John alone after this munication，I felt tempted to inquire if the event distressed him: but he seemed so little to need sympathy，that，so far from venturing to offer him more，I experienced some shame at the recollection of what I had already hazarded. Besides，I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over，and my frankness was congealed beneath it. He had not kept his promise of treating me like his sisters; he continually made little，chilling differences between us，which did not at all tend to the development of cordiality: in short，now that I was acknowledged his kinswoman，and lived under the same roof with him，I felt the distance between us to be far greater than when he had known me only as the village schoolmistress. When I remembered how far I had once been admitted to his confidence，I could hardly prehend his present frigidity.

Such being the case，I felt not a little surprised when he raised his head suddenly from the desk over which he was stooping，and said- "You see，Jane，the battle is fought and the victory won."