3 ZELUCA; OR, Educated and Uneducated Woman. CHAP. I. "A Mother, whose fondness cherished and invigorated the seeds of Caprice, Selfishness, Pride, and Injustice, which had been early sown, und, perhaps, generated those which did not exist.” DR. MOORE. POLITENESS, which (it is said in an admired work *) the Stoics are not perhaps wrong in classing among the moral virtues, provided they admit it to be one of the lowest order, was the VOL. I. *C. J. Fox's. M124033 characteristic of Mrs. Delvayne, who, with the discerning courtesy that knew when, and with whom, to discard etiquitte, walked with Lady Naglefort, at the conclusion of her first morning visit, to the carriage that waited at the end of the sweep, on account of some repairs in the road; and in answer to the reluctance her Ladyship expressed at taking her from a work-table, covered with baby-linen for the village poor, fluently defined the relief her society had afforded to an anxiety she felt returning in full force at her departure, from the protracted absence of her governess and daughter. Lady Naglefort repaid with, cordiality the complacencies that gave promise of an agreeable acquisition to her neighbourhood; but raising her eyes to Mrs. Delvayne's face, was surprised to see tokens of the anxiety she had considered parlerie de politesse; her foot was already on the step of the carriage, but she paused to expostulate on the moral 2 impossibility of any serious accident having happened in a rural walk, when the governess and child turning round a corner, were in sight to justify her arguments, yet not wholly to satisfy Mrs. Delvayne, who asked with precipitation, "Have you met Captain Cassenberd ?" and on an affirmative, continued, "then we part Miss Marlowe !-I am sorry!"— but she broke off in sudden recollection, and made her cordial adieus, with a countenance that denoted sweetness, supplanted by regret rather than anger, and produced a curiosity in Lady Naglefort that included Miss Marlowe in the glance with which she repeated her parting salute. -Miss Marlowe was the first who broke silence, as she and her charge proceeded to the house with Mrs. Delvayne; she asked if, as it appeared, being passed by Captain Cassenberd was the reason of Mrs. Delvayne's so peremptorily and disgracefully dismissing her. "Passed by him!" repeated Mrs. Delvayne, “we were passed-passed with only a bow, I assure you, upon my sacred honour," answered Miss Marlowe, with eagerness. "He did not speak Mamma, he only bowed, I assure you," said Zeluća, who, already in her thirteenth year, and constantly in the society of her mother, and her mother's company, perfectly understood the implied impeachment of Miss Marlowe's prudence. But Mrs. Delvayne wholly disregarded her, to reply to her governess. "There is no occasion for warmth, Miss Marlowe, it is a foible. in my child, which, as you know, I have taken much pains to correct in time, and thank heaven, I believe effectually, though, perhaps, I have been remiss in not removing all examples of it." Warmth," repeated. Miss Marlowe, with a tone and look of so much meaning, that the expression of Zeluca's face instantly changed from wonder to anger of a deeper tint than usually shades the countenance of childhood at recollected re |