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weeped for gladness; it was Augustus she embraced, and it was Eliza he clasped to his bosom; the universe was centred in her and his aged sire; and existence, all that she might call existence, dwelt in the name of papa, and the holy word brother.

After passing a few days with his family, Doctor Stuart went to Kelvin. He was welcomed by his Jessie like a messenger from the other world; and Mr. Levingstone threw himself into Augustus's arms, and needed the support of those present to keep him from sinking on his knees; an attitude, by the bye, this staunch presbyterian would not have assumed out of respect to any earthly being.

After these welcomes and emotions had subsided, the family of St. Clyde came upon the tapis; and Augustus that evening retired to rest in a state of mind which the children of sorrow

sometimes enjoy. He reflected on all his own wanderings in life's bewildered way; and, fancying that Colin still survived, he pictured to his mind the friend of his early days informed of the fate of his family, and like himself contemplating the manse, where without father, mother, and sister, and for years without brother, the friendless Ellen spent in anxious thought and various woe the lonely hours. Her he would this night paint to his lively imagination, all solitary, and alone traversing the loneliest bounds of the sea-beaten shore of her native isle; now he would fancy her sitting on the well-known rock, eying the deeply laden merchant ship, careering over unfathomed fields of ocean, and wondering if her brother still lived. Then he would behold her in midnight's cold, in despite of the chilling breeze seated on the brow of the cliff, keeping her vigils, and fancy

ing how and where in distant lands her brother passed his hours, and whether she might hope yet to see Colin. And thus he in a pleasing, seriously painful reverie fell asleep; and arose in the morning with the full determination of setting off to see Ellen in two days.

He did so, and was received by Mr. Thornhill, his wife, Ellen, and her friends, with all that pleasure, mingled with sadness, to which their sympathy with Ellen's misfortunes gave existence.

CHAPTER XX.

Even remote and minute events are objects of a curiosity, which being natural to the human mind, the gratification of it is attended with pleasure.

DR. ROBERTSON'S CH. V.

AUGUSTUS spent a month very agrees ably at the manse, puzzled which to admire most, the resignation of Ellen, or the disinterested, heaven-born piety of Mr. Thornhill; and he was not at little pleased with the dominie, Mr. Maclean. It was on a particular day that the dominie dined at the manse, and, after dinner, he endeavoured to prove that "virtue is nobility, and nothing besides virtue is nobility." Augustus having inadvertently led this

worthy man into a discussion as to the predicate agreeing or disagreeing with the subject; the dominie, to prove the figure of a syllogism being the legitimate disposition of the middle term in the premises, showed that as the middle term may be disposed in four different ways, (as though Augustus and the minister knew it not,) there were four figures. "First," said he, "Every animal has feeling, every man is an animal; therefore every man has feeling: secondly," continued the dominie, "where the middle term is the predicate of both premises: No stone is an animal, every man is an animal; therefore no man is a stone: thirdly, give me leave, Mr. Thornhill, to finish my figures," for the minister would have stopped him; "when the middle term. is the subject of both premises: Every animal has feeling, every animal has life; therefore some living things have

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