There was never any lack of sympathy in Stella's reception of some grand new system or theory for benefiting her fellow-creatures. Her cheek is flushing now as Althea reads slowly, pausing to give each terse sentence its full weight, the eloquent article which had riveted her attention at Millburn. These are not enthusiastic fancies, nor are they embellished by flowers of rhetoric; and yet each word tells upon the listener, and every paragraph is fraught with meaning. The reasoning is clear and perfect, working conviction as its inevitable result; and the means pointed out practical and within the compass of human effort.