"I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-hunting, they must act and look like marble or clay,--cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into an attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them, after all. Do not therefore be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-hearted; do not harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you desired to dedicate your life to inanity. Write again soon, for I feel rather fierce and want stroking down." That the sisters were not without their own perturbations and heart troubles, even in the deep seclusion of their lonely home, may be judged by some extracts from a poem written by Emily, who never confided anything to any friend but her own sombre muse. "Cold is the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave. Have I forgot, my only love, to love thee, Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave? "Now, when removed, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains on that northern shore, Resting their wings where heath and fern leaves cover Thy noble heart forever, evermore? "Cold in the grave, and fifteen wild Decembers From these brown hills have melted into spring; Faithful indeed the love is that remembers After such years of change and suffering." That Charlotte had some admirers among her father's curates is well known, and that Mr. Nichols paid court to her eight years previous to the time of her marriage with him. That she was capable of intense and passionate devotion there can be no doubt, but we have no hint as to whom she had lavished it upon, in any of her letters.