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After that the freedom had come It had been accompanied by many hopes never as yet fulfilled, and embittered by many sorrohich had been always present to her; but still the hopes were alive and the remembrance of the tyranny was very clear to her At last the minute was over and she was bound to speak 'Mr Broune,' she said, 'you have quite taken awayof this kind'

And now Mr Broune's mouth was opened, and his voice was free 'Lady Carbury,' he said, 'I have lived a long tiht that it would be better for o on the same way to the end I have worked so hard allI had no tione on, my mind has been so fully employed, that I have hardly realized the hich nevertheless I have felt And so it has been with me till I fancied, not that I was too old for love, but that others would think me so Then I allantry, you also are not as young as you once were But you keep the beauty of your youth, and the energy, and so heart And I have co your anger I have doubted much before I resolved upon this It is so hard to know the nature of another person But I think I understand yours;--and if you can confide your happiness with ' Poor Mr Broune! Though endoith gifts peculiarly adapted for the editing of a daily newspaper, he could have had but little capacity for reading a woman's character when he talked of the freshness of Lady Carbury's young mind! And hehi

'You do reat compliment,' ejaculated Lady Carbury

'Well?'

'How a of this As God is to be e it has come upon hest in England,--on your prosperity as the uttermost that can be achieved'

'That prosperity, such as it is, I desire most anxiously to share with you'