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At last the Queen said, "Girl, I bid thee rise, For now thou hast found favour in mine eyes, And I repent me of the misery That in this place thou hast endured me, Altho' because of it the Joy indeed Shall now be mine, that pleasure is thy meed"MORRIS

Those were evil ti, so that a splendid and imperious woman like Urania, Lady Belamour, had found little aid from public opinion when left to herself by the absence of her second husband Selfish, unscrupulous, and pleasure-loving she was by nature, but during Sir Jovian Belamour's lifetime she had been kept within bounds Then came a brief hood, when debt and difficulty hurried her into accepting Mr Wayland, a thoughtful scientific man, whose wealth had accumulated without much volition of his own to an extent that made her covet his alliance Enthralled by her charm of manner, he had not awakened to the perception of what she really was during the few years that had elapsed before he was sent abroad, and she refused to accoer than she had before coerous habits Her debts, both of extravagance and of the ga hard on the Delavie property, andsevere inroads on Mr Wayland'ssafely tied up, she had only been able to borrow on her dower She had sinned with a high hand, after the fashion of the ti return of her husband, had endeavoured to conceal the ravages of her extravagance by her bargain for her son's hand

The youth, bred up at a distance, and then the companion of his step-father, had on his return found his hoalled and grieved by the state of things, so that even apart froreat The quarrel with Colonel Mar that Mr Wayland had interrupted was not made up There was no opportunity, for Mr Wayland at once removed his family to Bowstead, there to remain while he transacted his business in London

Moreover Mr Bela baronet's commission The Major allowed that it was impossible that he should reretted that he should not continue in the service, declaring it the best school for a young man, and that he did not want to see his son-in-law acountry squire He would have had Sir Ae into the line, and see a little service before settling down, but Maria Theresa had not as yet set Europe in a blaze, and in the absence of a pro war Sir Amyas did more incline to his uncle's representations of duties to tenants and to his county, and was even ready to prepare hie to undertake them However, in the midst of the debates a new scheme was made Mr Belamour had been called upon and welco men of rank and influence, had risen in life while he was immured at Bowstead One of these had just received a diplonorance of foreign ested Major Delavie, as fro service in Austria likely to be very useful The Envoy caught at the idea, and the thought of oncehis old coret was that his hero, Prince Eugene, had been dead three years; but to visit his grave would be so could be easier than to obtain one for the young baronet; and though Mr Belah to accept anything, he was quite willing to join the party, and to spend a little ti an essay of his talents, and at any rate putting off the conation Thus matters settled the Mrs Arden, who thought it very hard that she could not stir any one up to request an appointment of her husband as chaplain--not even himself!