I will live in the light of my Charlotte's smiles while I can, and for the rest--"_Il ne faut pas dire, fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau_." There is no cup so bitter that a man dare say, I will not drain it to the very dregs.

"What must be, shall be--that's a certain text;" and in the mean time _carpe diem_.

I am all a Bohemian again.
_Nov.5th_.After a day's delay I have obtained my tracing-paper, and made two tracings of the entries in the Meynell Bible, How intercourse with the Sheldonian race inclines one to the duplication of documents! I consider the copying-press of modern civilization the supreme incarnation of man's distrust of his fellow-men.
I spent this afternoon and evening with my dear love--my last evening in Yorkshire.

To-morrow I shall see my Sheldon, and inform him of the very strange termination which has come to my researches.

Will he communicate at once with his brother?
Will he release me from my oath of secrecy?
There is nothing of the masonic secretiveness in my organisation, and I am very weary of the seal that has been set upon my unwary lips.