His life must be spared.

Heaven could not deprive her of such a blessing.

Ah, no, he will live! In this hour of trial the sorrowing girl sought comfort in those rebellious and sinful thoughts.

She had not the sustaining faith to say, "Thy will be done." It is needless to say that Maude's letter met much sympathy at "The Hall." Fanny cried heartily.

She could not think of any thing but the sadness that had fallen upon the inmates of the Castle.
"Poor Lady Rosamond," exclaimed she, in tones of undisguised sadness, "how she will lament her sad fate if Gerald should die?
Oh, mamma, I cannot think it possible that he must die." "Tempt not Heaven, my child, for 'with God all things are possible,'" said Lady Trevelyan, who was a truly Christian woman.