Your home shall be my home, my more than mother; and where you go, Ellen will follow," she murmured, speaking unconsciously in the spirit of one of the sweetest characters the Sacred Book presents.

"Do not ask me to leave you; indeed, indeed, no home will be to me like yours." "Speak not, then, so despondingly, my Ellen," replied Mrs.Hamilton, fondly kissing her.

"Never shall you leave me without your own full and free consent.

Do you remember, love, when I first promised that ?" she continued, playfully; for she sought not to draw from Ellen the secret of her love, she only wished to soothe, to cheer, to tell her, however unrequited might be her affections, still she was not desolate, and when she left her, fully had she succeeded.

Ellen was comforted, though she scarcely knew wherefore.
Some few months passed after the marriage of Emmeline, and the domestic peace of Oakwood yet remained undisturbed.