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"The proverb holds, that to be wise and love

Is hardly granted to the gods above"

"Well, well, to-day goes to its forefathers, like all the rest; and, as

for what co is in the love and counsel of the

Alht ere he fell asleep that

night, after Elder Semple's cautious disclosure and proposition In his

calm, methodical, domestic life, it had been an "eventful day" We say

the words often and unreflectingly, seldo to consider that such

days are the results which months, years, perchance centuries, haveand reckless gaent need of ready hts to the pretty daughter of the rich Dutch

merchant

Madam Semple, in her desire to enhance the importance of the Van

Heemskirks, had iven to each of Katharine's sisters on their wedding-day; and

both Colonel Gordon and his wife had thought of this sum so often, as a

relief to their nephew's embarrassments, that it seemed almost as much

Hyde's property as if he had been born to inherit it At first

Katherine, as its encumbrance, had been discussed very heartlessly,--she

could be left in New York when his regiht desirable; or she could be taken to England, and settled