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The father would not see his heir,--and never saw hiht be needed, the lawyers in London were told toand refuse nothing When there were debts,--debts for the second time, debts for the third time, the lawyers were instructed to do what in their own eyes seeht to pay, but they s were thus the Earl hter of a noble house,--a wo, for she was forty when he married her, but more than twenty years his junior It sufficed for hiood Good to hiious she was, and self-denying; giving round, but possessing wonderful energy in the service of others Whether she could in truth be called good the reader may say when he has finished this story

Then, when the Earl had been married some three years to his second wife, the heir died He died, and as far as Scroope Manor was concerned there was an end of him and of the creature he had called his wife An annuity was purchased for her That she should be entitled to call herself Lady Neville while she lived, was the sad necessity of the condition It was understood by all who came near the Earl that no one was toHe was thankful that no heir had come from that ain, nor need she trouble us further in the telling of our chronicle

But when Lord Neville died, it was necessary that the old h there was ood and noble, there had ever been intestine feuds,--causes of quarrel in which each party would be sure that he was right They were a people who thought ood to the poor, who strove to be noble;--but they could not forgive injuries They could not forgive even when there were no injuries The present Earl had quarrelled with his brother in early life;--and had therefore quarrelled with all that had belonged to the brother The brother was now gone, leaving two sons behind hi Nevilles, Fred and Jack, of whom Fred, the eldest, was now the heir It was at last settled that Fred should be sent for to Scroope Manor Fred caiment,--a fine handsome youth of five and twenty, with the Neville eyes and Neville finely cut features Kindly letters passed between the ed mother and the present Lady Scroope; and it was decided at last, at his own request, that he should reer in the army, and then be installed as the eldest son at Scroope Manor Again the laas told to do as proper in regard to money