text:  Selina prayed that it might prove so;--but she prayed with tears in her eyes and trembling in her soul! For where are the destinies of persons thus exquisitely organized--thus full of love and loveliness--thus readily swayed to joy or sorrow by the trivial incidents of life--characterised by what the world calls happiness--such happiness I mean as is enjoyed by the serene and the prudent the unexcitable the unaspiring! Miss Stanley foresaw only too truly that the best days likely to be enjoyed by her sister were those she was spending under her father's roof--a general idol--an object of deference and delight to all around