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"Indeed, ma'am, that you may say," returned Mrs Aylward, whom anxiety had ainst her from the first, as, if you'll excuse ainst whatever comes from my Lady's side However, one must have been made of the nether millstone not to feel the difference she made in the house She was the very life of it with her pretty ways, singing and playing with the children, and rousing up the poor gentleeon, and wouldn't so odly word in his despair And now he has a ht to read prayers, and is quite another ht hiht and life" And as Betty's tears flowed at this testimony to her sister, the housekeeper added, "Never you fear, ma'am; she is one of God's innocents and His Hand will be over her"

Meanti lover to take, if he could, ato Mr Belamour's confession "I was theone; and I would that the penalty fell on me alone"

"If she be in my cousin's hands I cannot believe that she will pering to his faith in Urania--the child he had taught to ride, and hom he had danced her firstforced into soe," said Mr Belamour "The poor child's faith in the ceremony that passed must have been overthrown, and who can tell what she may be induced to accept?"

"It was that threat which rave assured me that my Lady had actually offered her to him, with a bribe of a farm on easy terms; and when she found that he had other intentions, there seemed to be some broken-down sycophant of Mar's upon the cards, but of course I was preferable, both becauserespect for the honour of her own blood, and because the bar between Aurelia and my nepheould be perpetual I knew likewise that it was my brother's earnest desire that a match should take place between your children and his

"He did me too much honour The lad showed me the extract from his letter"