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This was a question which Roger found it alhts he would have declared that Sir Felix had reached an age at which, if ato destruction Thinking as he did of his cousin he could see no possible salvation for him 'Perhaps I should take him abroad,' he said

'Would he be better abroad than here?'

'He would have less opportunity for vice, and feweryou into debt'

Lady Carbury, as she turned this counsel in her ed,--her literary aspirations, her Tuesday evenings, her desire for society, her Brounes, her Alfs, and her Bookers, her pleasant drawing-room, and the determination which she had made that now in the afternoon of her days she would becoive it all up and retire to the dreariness of soer possible that she should live in London with such a son as hers? There seemed to be a cruelty in this beyond all cruelties that she had hitherto endured This was harder even than those lies which had been told of her when almost in fear of her life she had run from her husband's house But yet she must do even this if in no other way she and her son could be together 'Yes,' she said, 'I suppose it would be so I only wish that I o out to one of the Colonies,' said Roger

'Yes;--be sent away that he ot rid of I have heard of that before Wherever he goes I shall go'

As the reader knows, Roger Carbury had not latterly held this cousin of his in ht her to be unprincipled But now, at this er pretend to defend, wiped out all her sins He forgot the visit made to Carbury under false pretences, and the Melmottes, and all the little tricks which he had detected, in his appreciation of an affection which was pure and beautiful 'If you like to let your house for a period,' he said, 'mine is open to you'

'But, Felix?'

'You shall take him there I am all alone in the world I can e It is empty now If you think that would save you you can try it for six months'