A murmur of surprise ran through the assembly, Mrs. Medway and Matilda seemed ready to sink with confusion, Sophy clapped her hands, and Grace, pale and trembling with surprise and emotion, suffered herself to be led forward by the old gentleman, who continued, “I have met with much kindness and attention beneath the roof of my sister-in-law, in token of which I shall bequeath to my niece, Matilda, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, when she has the pleasure of playing the Dead March for me. And to her sister, whose opinions were at least frankly avowed, I shall leave a similar amount. My ear-cornet and glasses have served me a trusty part, and I now lay them aside, I hope forever, trusting that the ladies have profited by the lesson they have themselves taught me, that appearances are often deceitful, and one need not be deaf, dumb and blind, though he is a Nabob Uncle.” Whether Mrs. Medway and her daughters stayed to the splendid supper prepared, and swallowed their mortification and the delicacies together, this record sayeth not; but that the beautiful heiress, Grace Addison, became at once a star of the first magnitude in the fashionable world, is to be expected; but the bright star ever found her happiness in enlivening the home of the eccentric but kind old man, who found in his adopted daughter the delight and solace of his old age. * * * * * RAFFAELLE D’URBINO. BY W. H. WELSH. ’Twas night in Florence! Pale the eve had come, And flung o’er Nature’s form a sable shroud. With step as light as joy the day had gone, And sunk into his jeweled couch, o’erhung With crimson canopy and crystal sheen. The rosy-colored clouds, with emerald fringed, That veiled the blushing sky, had faded far— And as the night crept on with noiseless tread, Bright starry eyes looked on the sleeping Earth, And smiled that then it was so like their home. Through latticed bower and tesselated hall, The zephyr danced with wild and airy wing; And spirit-songs sighed on the startled air That blew as fragrant as in Araby! The night was holy!