Kate

On the second morning after the departure of Nicholas for Yorkshire, Kate Nickleby sat in a very faded chair raised upon a very dusty throne in Miss La Creevy's room, giving that lady a sitting for the portrait upon which she was engaged; and towards the full perfection of which, Miss La Creevy had had the street-door case brought upstairs, in order that she might be the better able to infuse into the counterfeit countenance of Miss Nickleby, a bright salmon flesh- tint which she had originally hit upon while executing the miniature of a young officer therein contained, and which bright salmon flesh- tint was considered, by Miss La Creevy's chief friends and patrons, to be quite a novelty in art: as indeed it was.

'It will be your genius that makes it so, then, I am sure,' replied Kate, smiling.

'They must be, I have no doubt,' said Kate, humouring her good- natured little friend.

'The remuneration can scarcely repay you,' said Kate.

Brooke will go to keep us boys steady, and Kate Vaughn will play propriety for the girls.

Kate is older than you, Fred and Frank (twins) about my age, and a little girl (Grace), who is nine or ten.

Meg was grateful to see that Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate, and who was much flattered by Mr.

Miss Kate decided that she was `odd', but rather clever, and smiled upon her from afar.

Aunt Elizabeth Swift, a grey competent- looking widow with money in the Winesburg Na- tional Bank, lived there with her daughter Kate Swift, a school teacher.

From wanting to reach the ears of Kate Swift, and through his sermons to delve into her soul, he began to want also to look again at the figure lying white and quiet in the bed.

When thoughts of Kate Swift came into his head, he smiled and raised his eyes to the skies.

By chance he discov- ered that Kate Swift was in the habit of lying in her bed in the evenings and reading a book.