Pluck up your heart, man, and look around, and see what is done by men with good courage.
Yours always, FERDINAND LOPEZ.
These were the only communications between our married couple and their friends at home with which I need trouble my readers.

Nor need I tell any further tales of their honeymoon.

If the time was not one of complete and unalloyed joy to Emily,--and we must fear that it was not,--it is to be remembered that but very little complete and unalloyed joy is allowed to sojourners in this vale of tears, even though they have been but two months married.

In the first week in February they appeared in the Belgrave mansion, and Emily Lopez took possession of her new home with a heart as full of love for her husband as it had been when she walked out of the church in Vere Street, though it may be that some of her sweetest illusions had already been dispelled..