The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

160 THE YOUNG lady's COUNSHLLOB.
'Jonathan, you niust get up; tne reojulais are
"
reining. Something must be done !
This is an example of genuine courage. It locked
the danger in the face, and conceived a bold and settled
purpose to assail it. Fear was subdued by the
stern resolve to confront its object. The " regulars "
were viewed not merely as messengers of death, but p.s
the minions of royalty, to be driven back to Boston
by patriotic valor. " Something " was to " be
DONE."
The young lady may imagine that in these days
of peace courage is unnecessary in a woman. This
is a mistake. Courage is as necessary to-day as in
times of war or martyrdom. It is not battle-fields oi
scaffolds, alone, that try the soul and demand courage.
Every-day life calls loudly for its exercise.
Does it require no courage for that young lady, long
nursed in the lap of indulgent kindness, who has just
returned from her father's grave, to go forth into the
world a penniless orphan ? Can tha mother, reared
6y kind parents in her girlhood, but left to suppart