Take her, my dear Arthur; freely, fearlessly I consign her happiness to your charge, for indeed you have well deserved her." We need not lift the veil from the brief interview which the consideration of Mr.and Mrs.Hamilton afforded to the lovers, it is enough that they were happy, happy in the consciousness not of present joy alone, but of duty unshrinkingly performed, of pain endured with unrepining fortitude; unalloyed in its purity indeed was their happiness, for it was the recompense of virtue.
When the tidings of what had passed were made known, there were few who did not feel as if some individual joy had been imparted.

The universal sympathy occasioned by the happiness of a being so generally beloved as Emmeline shed new animation over the little party.

And Ellen, the gentle affectionate Ellen, did not she rejoice?
She did, unfeignedly, sincerely, but there was a pang of bitterness mingled with it which she vainly struggled to subdue.
"Can you consent to live in the humble vicarage of my estate, Emmeline ?" whispered the young Earl in her ear, as she relinquished the arm of Arthur, whom Edward, Percy, and Ellen were eagerly surrounding.

"You have often admired it.

Will it serve you for a home, think you?
if not, name what alterations you will like, and they shall be done, even as if Aladdin's wonderful genii had performed it." "Dearest Eugene," said Emmeline, "I feel it is to you, to your generous pleadings in Arthur's favour, I greatly owe this happiness.