"Glad indeed, am I, Ella, that you have come to this conclusion! What you have been doing ennobles rather than depresses you in my eyes, and will in theirs when they come to know you as I do." In a few weeks the prejudices of Miss Baldwin, under the constant assaults of her brother, were so far broken down, that she consented to call with him and see Ella. As the doctor had expected, she was more than pleased with her, although the meeting was necessarily attended with a good deal of formality and reserve. A second visit enabled the young ladies to approach nearer, and understand each other better. Clara Baldwin, from being pleased, soon became charmed with the lovely girl, and no longer wondered that her beauty, grace, intelligence, and worth, had captivated her brother. She could not but acknowledge in her own heart that, for her sister, she would far prefer Ella to any one of the gay, fashionable girls with whom she was acquainted. There was so much goodness about her—so much regard for others and giving up of self. The old watchmaker likewise rose in her estimation, after a few meetings with him; and the mother of Ella proved to be something more than the vulgar woman she had set her down in her imagination. She could not help observing and being charmed with the natural politeness that distinguished the intercourse of one member of the family with another. It was not ostentatious—not assumed—but came as the just expression of the good will each bore to the other. Of the wife of Doctor Hudson, she could never get done talking to her brother. "She will grace any circle," she said. "She will be called to grace the most intelligent and accomplished circle in the city, or I am mistaken," returned her brother. "Why so?" "Because her husband will undoubtedly rise as high as any man of talents ever rose in this city. He is as sure to go up as the sun is to rise in the morning." "You think so?" "I know so. I should not be surprised to see him in the chair of professor of anatomy and surgery before five years. It may take place in less than that time. If the present incumbent in the school where he now is were to be removed from any cause to-morrow, I believe he would be chosen to succeed him." "Is he so highly appreciated as that?" "Yes, and by the very men who will have the power to elevate him when the right time comes." CHAPTER XV. PREJUDICES REMOVED.