He expired in the act of taking the sacrament, and our desolation of heart can be better imagined than described--left so utterly alone and unprotected, far from our relatives and the friends of our youth.

I now marked a change in Florry, though at a loss to account for it.

An influence, secret as that exerted on her lost parent, was likewise successful and, to my grief and astonishment, I found that she too had embraced papacy." The door opened and Florence entered.

She started on seeing her lover, but advanced to them much as usual.

He raised his head, and cold and stern was the glance he bent on her beautiful face.