not always associate a beautiful soul? And when a lady adorns
herself with the most beautiful and costly things in nature, how can
we help looking, to see whether they correspond to things in her
mind! For one, I cannot; and so, almost involuntarily, I keep
turning my eyes upon Miss Harvey, and looking for signs of her
quality."

"And how do you read the lady?" I inquired.

My friend shook his head.

"The observation is not favorable."

"Not favorable," he replied. "No, not favorable. She thinks of her
jewels--she is vain of them."

"The temptation is great," I said.

"The fact of so loading herself with costly jewels, is in itself
indicative of vanity--"

A third party joining us at this moment, we dropped the subject of
Miss Harvey. But, enough had been said to make me observe her
closely during the evening.

The opening line of Moore's charming lyric,

"Rich and rare were the gems she wore,"

kept chiming in my thoughts, whenever I glanced towards her, and saw