You will stay for the wedding ?" "Why, I must go into -- ----shire to-morrow evening, to place Arthur with his tutor.

But I'll return for the wedding, if you particularly wish it: only Mrs.Beaufort is a woman of very strict--" "I--do particularly wish it," interrupted Philip, gravely; "for I desire, for Catherine's sake, that you, my sole surviving relation, may not seem to withhold your countenance from an act of justice to her.
And as for your wife, I fancy L1500.

a year would reconcile her to my marrying out of the Penitentiary." Mr.Robert bowed his head, coughed huskily, and said, "I appreciate your generous affection, Philip." The next morning, while the elder parties were still over the breakfast-table, the younger people were in the grounds it was a lovely day, one of the last of the luxuriant August--and Arthur, as he looked round, thought he had never seen a more beautiful place.

It was, indeed, just the spot to captivate a youthful and susceptible fancy.

The village of Fernside, though in one of the counties adjoining Middlesex, and as near to London as the owner's passionate pursuits of the field would permit, was yet as rural and sequestered as if a hundred miles distant from the smoke of the huge city.