52792. _ from Isabella to Albert. — es 
‘mestic tranquillity. She would fain persuade her- 
self that fhe may put on a new face as fhe-can anew 
cap. False delusion! Nothing is more impofsible. 
Like the foolifh ostrich, which, when pursued, hides 
its head among the reeds, and because it sees not it- 
self the object it dreads, it hopes that the pursuer 
will not see it. These persons only deceive them- 
_ selves, ‘but no one else.~ The traits that have ‘been 
imprefsed on the countenance in private, continue 
‘to be perceptible in’ public; and by their being so 
frequently retraced, they soon become so distinct, 
‘that the most undiscerning beholder can trace them. 
Here, then, my dear, is my great secret ;—%e really 
and sincerely good, and without affectation good bu- 
moured, and you will infallibly appear pleasing. 
Nou, I thank heaven for it, have little occasion for 
the lefson; your mind is as yet tender, beneficent, 
andkind. Cultivate these affections with care; not 
for the purpose of ostentation, for there also you 
will be disappointed. Nothing but the real pofsef- 
sion of good dispositions, and the habitual exertion 
of these in the inmost recefses of the family, can ever . 
‘imsute that enchanting exprefsion of countenance 
which is sure to captivate all beholders. I warn you 
now, ‘however, to be excefsively on your guard against 
indulging the first beginnings of peevithnefs, vanity, 
vor domineering ‘haughtinefs. No person exists who 
does not at times feel a propensity to these in a cer- 
tain degree. Check the very beginning of them; for 
at the beginning this is easily done ; but after a little 
andulgence it becomes impofsible. How many a 
_ young creature have J seen, who, by inadvertently 
andulging at first trifling gusts of humour, have 
