His stay was protracted from day to day; and in short with the usual constancy of despairing lovers,--he soon learned to think the fair daughter of the "emerald isle" even more charming than the dark-eyed maiden of his own sunny clime.

Her smiles were certainly more encouraging; and, at the end of a few weeks, De Valette led her to the bridal altar.
La Tour was disappointed in his application to Sir David Kirk, and, for a time, his tide of fortune seemed entirely to have ebbed.

He again visited Boston, but did not meet with a very cordial reception, though a few merchants entrusted him with a considerable sum of money, on some private speculation.

This he disposed of, in his own way, and never took the trouble to render any account, or make the least restitution to the owners.

The death of D'Aulney, however, which happened in the course of a few years, reversed his prospects, and reinstated him in all his possessions.