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But it was not so with Lady Scroope She, indeed, came to the same conclusion as her friend, but she did so with les She understood and valued the custoic line In her heart of hearts she approved of a different code of morals for arded this world, perpetual condeiven A sigh, a shake of the head, and soe and settlement in life with increased income, would have been her treatreat and wealthy She knew that the world could not afford to ostracise the ht condele separated instance, though her heart melted with no ruth for the woman,--in such cases the woh pity for Kate O'Hara did not influence her, she did acknowledge the sanctity of a gentleman's word If, as Lady Mary told her, and as she could so well believe, the present Earl of Scroope had given to this girl a promise that he would ed word, as a nobleentleman, how could she bid hiin to live and to deserve the motto of his house by the conduct of his life?

But then the evil that would be done was so great! She did not for a irl The worst of it had indeed been admitted She was a Roed utterly by a parent so low that nothing lower could possibly be raked out of the world's gutters And now the girl herself was--a castaway Such a e as that of which Lady Mary spoke would not only injure the house of Scroope for the present generation, but would tend to its final downfall Would it not be known throughout all England that the next Earl of Scroope would be the grandson of a convict? Might there not be questions as to the legitimacy of the assumed heir? She herself knew of noble families which had been scattered, confounded, and almost ruined by such imprudence Hitherto the faeneration without stain,--al that the late heir had died because of the pollution of his wretched e And now h the folly of this young man? Must that proud motto be taken down from its place in the hall froht be that her words could save the house frorace