She recognised with a full and grateful heart the blessings still surrounding her, and struggled long and painfully to be content; but that fond yearning would not be stilled, that deep love no effort could dispel.

Still there were times when those who had never known her in former years would have pronounced her well, quite well in health; and Emmeline would smile when such remarks reached her, and wonder if her parents were so deceived.

Sometimes she thought they were, for the name of Arthur Myrvin was no longer suppressed before her.

She heard of him, of his devotion to his pupil, of the undeviating integrity and steadiness which characterised him, and promised fair to lead Lord Louis in the same bright paths; she had heard of Arthur's devoted care of his pupil during a long and dangerous illness, that he, under Divine goodness, had been the instrument of saving the youth's life, and restoring him to health; and if she permitted no sign to betray the deep, absorbing interest she felt, if her parents imagined he was forgotten, they knew not the throbbings of her heart.
She was conversing this morning with Mrs.Cameron, who had learned to love Emmeline dearly; from being very often at Oakwood, she and her daughters were looked on by all Mr.Hamilton's children as part of the family.
"Is not Flora delighted at the idea of again seeing her brother ?" Emmeline asked, in answer to Mrs.Cameron's information that Walter was returning with his regiment to England, and in a very few weeks would be once more an inmate of her home.

She answered cheerfully in the affirmative, and Emmeline again inquired--"Was Captain Cameron at all acquainted with Cecil Grahame?
Did he know the cause of his having been so disgracefully cashiered ?" "Their regiments were quartered in such different parts of Ireland," replied Mrs.Cameron, "that I believe they only met on one occasion, and then Walter was glad to withdraw from the society of the dissolute young men by whom Lieutenant Grahame was always surrounded.