Her mother's nurse and favorite servant had taken the charge of her after her death, and Agnes had been her nurse and companion.

Agnes is a pious child, and loves her prayers and hymns; and so she will love her husband, one of these days, as an honest woman should."

Her "St. Agnes" is an interesting rendering of a well-worn subject.

Agnes is now my wife, as he had, of course, foreseen.

Agnes is a very pure, self-sacrificing girl, accomplished, yet domestic.

From Madagascar, five hundred and fifty miles from Mauritius, yet its next-door neighbour westwards in the silver sea, there came, when Agnes was yet but seven years old, the tidings of a fearful persecution of the Christians.

When Agnes was about five years of age, her father's regiment, which had previously been quartered at Cork, was ordered to Mauritius.

It need only record the simple details of the girl's quiet life,of the girl's calm strong nature,that there were goodness, peace and truth wherever Agnes was,Agnes, my boyhood's sister, counsellor and friend.

Agnes, fair, young and beautiful, had been a slave, with no power to protect herself from the highest insults that brutality could offer to innocence.

Fanny was too old to be taught by her, and had an Italian master and a French teacher; but she practised duets for the piano with Miss Agnes, and read with her,and she made visits with her, for Miss Agnes was a favorite everywhere.