Flora Lyndsay

the voyage, he hurried to London, to obtain permission from head-quarters to settle in Canada, to arrange pecuniary matters for the voyage, and take leave of a few old and trie

hiefs and stockings to mark, that Flora saw no end to the work

f her father had presented her with a very elegant wedding-dress, shawl, and bonnet, which was all the finery Flora possessed. Her other dresses were very plain, and composed of common materials; and if it had not been for the unexpected bounty of the said rich lady, our bride must have done without a wedding-garment at all; for she

hest of books and music, he had nothing in the world but his half-pay. Many a long afternoon Flora spent during her quiet honeymoon (for the month was April, and the weather very wet) in looking over shirts and socks, and putting them into the best habitable repair. She was t

ndsay," he cried, in a tragic horror-(it would have been more in good taste to have said not

she collected the fallen articles, and stowed them once more in

every old thing I have in the world. No wife of mine sh

eeable things in every-day life than mending old clothes. Industry and perseverance may soon replace these

appiness had blessed God that she had been permitted to share L

sum, indeed, to the rich, who would have expended as much in a single article of dress, but very lar

home, and of whom she had formed the most laughable and erroneous notions, many of her purchases were not only useless, but ridiculous. Things were ove

being required in a barbarous desert, such as

he experiment proved, as it always does in such cases, a perfect failure. All parental restraint being removed, the young man ran wild altogether, and used his freedom as fresh occasion for lic

colony, the horror of colour is as great among the native-born Canadians as it is in the United Sta

reflection would have pointed this out as impossible; but common sense is very rare, and the majority of persons seldom take the trouble to think. We have known many persons just as wise as Flora in this respect. It is a fact, however,

eat work of clearing is indispensable; that man cannot work alone in t

nada, was the cause of more blunders in the choice of an

rless forests, inhabited by unreclaimed savages, or rude settlers doomed to perpetual toil,-a climate of stern vicissitudes, alternating between intense heat and freezing cold, and which presented at

d for domestic drudgery, and not fine enough to suit the rank to which she belo

e more to be prized than silks and satins, which a few days' exposure to the rough flooring of a log-cabin would effectually destroy; yet it

ents with themselves. The aristocracy of England may be divided into three distinct classes,-that of family, of wealth, and of talent,-all powerful in their order. The one which ranks the last should hold its place with the first, for it originally produced it; and the second, which is far inferior to the last, is l

re supposed to express the wealth of the possessor; and a lady's gown determines her right to the title, which, after all, presents

r in choosing neat and respectable every-day clothing. The handsome

her garments fit well. Flora was as yet a novice to the world and its ways. She had

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