The proud girl humbled, or the two school-mates

FOR LITTLE BOYS AND LITTLE GIRLS.
BY MRS. HUGHS,
AUTHOR OF “FRANK WORTHY,” “MAY MORNING,” ETC. ETC.
PHILADELPHIA: LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON. 1849.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN. PRINTED BY C. SHERMAN.
Dear Readers :
This little story has been written, to show you how often we are the cause of our own unhappiness by selfish conduct. To be happy, we should act kindly towards all who are worthy, (knowing good conduct more frequently commands respect than riches,) and not permit ourselves to feel envious of those who excel us in any way; but should rather strive to imitate their good actions, that we may thus, by correcting our faults, gain the love of those around us; ever bearing in mind, that “to be happy, we must be good.”
“I SUPPOSE you will be at Miss Rosalba Pearson’s party to-morrow night,” said Isabella Ingersol to Matilda Hamilton, as they sat on the first resting-place of the steps leading up to the reservoir at Fairmount.
“No, I shall not be there,” returned Matilda in a contemptuous tone; “Rosalba Pearson is no acquaintance of mine.”
“I thought you went to the same school together.”
“So we do; but that is no reason that we should be acquainted. I never spoke to her in my life, except in such a manner as one is obliged, sometimes, to speak to a girl that is in the same class.”
“She seems, in general, to be a great favourite in the school,” said Isabella; “I have often heard her spoken of with much affection by many of the girls.”