[From The Ladies' Companion]
LETTICE ARNOLD.
By the Author of "TWO OLD MEN'S TALES," "EMILIA WYNDHAM," &c.
[Continued from page 35.]
CHAPTER V.
Since trifles make the sum of human things....
Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence,
A small unkindness is a great offense:
Large favors to bestow we strive in vain,
But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.
Hannah More.
If Lettice had made her reflections, and had started upon her new undertaking with a heart yearning with the desire to perform its duties well, Mrs. Melwyn had not been without undergoing a somewhat similar process upon her side, and this was her course of thought:
"She had at first felt the utmost dislike to the plan.