LEILA AT HOME.
By the Same Author.
LEILA; OR, THE ISLAND. By Ann Fraser Tytler.
LEILA IN ENGLAND. A continuation of Leila; or, The Island.
LEILA AT HOME. A continuation of Leila in England.
Also, lately Published.
ARBELL. A tale for young people. By Jane Winnard Hooper.
THE CANADIAN CRUSOES. By Catharine Parr Traill. Edited by AgnesStrickland.
LEILA AT HOME.
A CONTINUATION OF
Leila in England.
BY
ANN FRASER TYTLER,
AUTHOR OF “MARY AND FLORENCE; OR, GRAVE AND GAY,” ETC.
WITH ENGRAVINGS BY J. W. ORR, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS.
New York:
S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.
BOSTON:—CROSBY, NICHOLS & CO.
M.DCCC.LIII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,
By C. S. Francis & Co.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District
of New York.
PREFACE.
IT was the intention of the writer of the following pages to have bid alast farewell to Leila, but some of her young readers have said “No;”and she feels too grateful for the kindness they have shown her, not tomake the attempt to meet their wishes. Circumstances have so longprevented her fulfilling this intention, that it may be necessary toremind them that they took leave of Leila when she had just set off forWoodlands, (near Richmond,) a property Mr. Howard had purchased near theresidence of her uncle, Mr. Stanley; that Leila was in all the joy ofher cousin, Selina Stanley, having recovered her speech; that Selina’ssister, Matilda, was continuing to make many good resolutions, and toooften to break them again; and that their brother, little Alfred, waslittle Alfred still, and not over wise.
LEILA AT HOME.
CHAPTER I.
THE wooded banks of Richmond were in all the soft green of early spring,when they were first seen by Leila. A few months had passed; the treeswere now half stripped of their leaves, and the autumn tints were fastfading into sombre gray as she a second time caught sight of its woodedheights; but how d