the window, and growing pale for want of fresh air. Still never rebelling, never com plaining.. Meantime the stir of Christmas pre paration was agitating all the household, and the children were fun of rapture at the pro spect of Lady Thorntons Christmas party. There was great excitement in the nursery about pretty new dresses, wonderful fussing about ribbons, and muslins, and fripperies Teecie alone sat silent in her .shabby frock.