He has gone now to Widow Langford, to hear her tale against Jefferies, and if this last base charge he has brought against Arthur be indeed proved against himself, it will be easy to convict him of other calumnies; for the truth of this once made evident, it is clear that his base machinations have been the secret engines of the prejudice against Myrvin, for which no clear foundation has ever yet been discovered.

You will not doubt your father's earnestness in this proceeding, my Emmeline, and you know him too well to believe he would for one moment refrain from acknowledging to Mr.Myrvin the injustice he has done him, if indeed it prove unfounded." "And if his character be cleared from all stain--if not a whisper taint his name, and his true excellence be known to all--oh, may we not hope?
mother, mother, you will not be inexorable; you will not, oh, you will not condemn your child to misery!" exclaimed Emmeline, in a tone of excitement, strongly contrasting with the hopelessness which had breathed in every word before; and, bursting from her mother's detaining hold, she suddenly knelt before her, and clasped her robe in the wildness of her entreaty.

"You will not refuse to make us happy; you will not withhold your consent, on which alone depends the future happiness of your Emmeline.

You, who have been so good, so kind, so fond,--oh, you will not sentence me to woe.

Mother, oh, speak to me.