I shall feel satisfied of her future now." Alas! so did I.I rode home through the sweet, gathering gloom and the starlight, one of the happiest men in England.

I had won my love.

She loved me whom I loved best.
There seemed to be nothing wanting then.

Two short years ago I was poor, my daily life one of monotonous toil, without the least hope of relief.
Now the silvery moon fell upon the woods and silvered the roof of the grand old mansion, and all this fair land over which I was riding was mine.
Coralie was waiting for me.

She affected to be just crossing the hall, but I knew that she had been waiting there to have the first word with me.