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"This is he

Who rides on the court-gale; controls its tides;

Knows all their secret shoals and fatal eddies;

Whose frown abases, and whose smile exalts

He shines like any rainbow--and, perchance,

His colours are as transient"--OLD PLAY

There was some little displeasure and confusion on the Countess's brow,

owing to her struggle with Varney's pertinacity; but it was exchanged

for an expression of the purest joy and affection, as she threw herself

into the ar hith thou art come!"

Varney discreetly withdrew as his lord entered, and Janet was about to

do the saned to her to remain She took her

place at the farther end of the apart, as if

ready for attendance

Meanwhile the Earl, for he was of no inferior rank, returned his lady's

caress with the most affectionate ardour, but affected to resist when

she strove to take his cloak from him

"Nay," she said, "but I will unmantle you I reat Earl men call thee, and not as