I have trusted you for doing greatly.

I will trust you, besides, for pardoning nobly.

You will be Napoleon in this also.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.
[Illustration] * * * * * Shortly after this date, on April 17, Mrs.Browning's father died.

In the course of the previous summer an attempt made by a relative to bring about a reconciliation between him and his daughters was met with the answer that they had 'disgraced his family;' and, although he professed to have 'forgiven' them, he refused all intercourse, removed his family out of town when the Brownings came thither, and declined to give his daughter Henrietta's address to Mr.Kenyon's executor, who was instructed to pay her a small legacy.

A further attempt at reconciliation was made by Mrs.Martin only a few months before his death, but had no better success.