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LETTER WRITING.

'Do you know, my dear Sister,' said George Stanley, 'that I have just been hearing you very ill spoken of?'

'I am sorry for that,' replied Mrs. Williams, but it is too common a thing to excite surprise. I know how much the partiality of my friends leads many of them to over-rate what little claims I may possess on their affectionate regard; and I desire to be thankful for any reproof that may bring me better acquainted with my own demerits. Nevertheless, I would deprecate the custom of evil speaking, more particularly in the absence of the person censured.'

'Well, if you like it, I can introduce the gentleman who was my informant, and you may hear from him the particulars of the calumny.'

Mrs. Williams hesitated a little: she knew that to encourage a tale-bearer was to participate in his evil doings, and that it also tended to promote a wider spread of the reports in question. Still the impulse of curiosity, stimulated by wounded feeling, prevailed over her better judgment, and she gave a nod of assent. Her brother returned to the party whom he had left, on the other side of the room, discussing a doctrinal point, and led forward a very respectable looking elderly gentleman, whom he announced as Mr. Clay. A few civil speeches having been made, and answered, Stanly requested his friend to repeat what he had recently told him respecting his sister.'

'I am perfectly ready so to do,' answered