London Magazine: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT. AND INSTRUCTION FOR GENERAL READING. FAMED-long famed-in the page of the picturesque-a | features, the Wye and its banks are conspicuous. The locality in which artist and author love to linger, and ridge of cliff on the left bank below the bridge is remarkapostrophized by the poet of nature, able both for its form and variety of colouring; while, “O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer through the woods,” on the opposite bank above, the gigantic remains of the castle, stretching along the brink of the precipice, give the associations of the river are, unquestionably, height- an air of romance to the picture, not frequently found ened by the graceful memorials of the past which stud in one of the crowded haunts of men. From different its banks. Among these, the ruins of Chepstow castle points, the views are exceedingly beautiful—the scenery occupy an extensive area, adjoining the port and market not being surpassed, perhaps, by anything similar in town of Chepstow, on the Wye, about two miles and a Britain. half from where it falls into the estuary of the Severn. The bridge is a noble structure of cast iron, erected The advantageous situation of the town, near the in 1816. It has five arches resting upon stone piers; mouth of the Wye, is supposed to have rendered it a but although, in reality, a massive structure, it has, powerful position, both in Roman and Saxon times. when viewed from the river, that air of lightness which However, the assemblage of natural and artificial beau-iron bridges usually possess. The old bridge was comties is of the most enchanting character; for the tourist, posed of a level floor, carried upon wooden piers, except having passed the fantastic majesty of the Piercefield in the centre, where a pillar of stone, dividing Gloucester cliffs, capped with magnificent woods, finds himself in and Monmouth, was the support. Afterwards, however, Piercefield Bay. “To the right, a line of perpendicular stone piers were substituted for those on the Monmouth cliffs is still seen, but crowned instead of trees with an side, before the two counties joined in the erection of embattled fortress; which, for a moment, might seem the present handsome structure. to have been cut out of the rocks. The view is closed by The castle of Chepstow is commonly stated to have a range of red cliffs, with the magnificent iron bridge been built originally by Julius Cæsar, a common paterof Chepstow spanning the river. This is the last of the nity for old structures; in this case, ascribed only great views on the Wye, and, if seen under favourable upon unauthorized assumption, fostered, though, percircumstances of time and tide, it is one of the finest." chance, by some idle or ill-informed topographer. For (" The Wye and its Associations,” by Leitch Ritchie.) it is tolerably certain that Cæsar never was at ChepAnother tourist describes the beauties as so "uncom- stow; and that Roman relics, although abundant in the monly excellent, that the most exact critic in landscape neighbourhood, have never been discovered in the town. would scarcely wish to alter a position in the assem- The plan and architecture of the castle, too, are of a blage of woods, cliffs, ruins, and water.” Among these much later date than the Roman dominion in Britain. VOL. III. 4 However, the name by which the town is at present, virtue of her descent; the king himself, Henry TII, known is Saxon, and denotes a place of traffic; and Le- solemnly giving the truncheon into her band. She land traces at least its prosperity to its situation being was buried in Tintern Abbey, in 1248, her body being favourable for commerce. “ The towne of Chepstowe,” carried into the choir hy her four sons. says he, “hath been very strongly walled, as yet (the There is little worthy of record in the several chara sixteenth century) doth appere. The walles began at of the possessors of Chepstow Castle, until it was sold en the grete bridge over the Wy, and so came to the castel; the Earl of Pembroke: whose heiress Elizabeth sitthe which yet standeth fayer, and strong, not far from vered it by marriage to Sir Charles Somerset, afterwin's the ruin of the bridge. A grete lyklyhood is, that Earl of Worcester. Churchyarde records the fact of the when Carguen began to decay, then began Chepstow to sale in these unconth rhymes: flourish, for yt standeth far better, as upon Wy, there " To Chepstowe vet, my pen agavne must rasse, ebbing and flowing, by the rage coming out of the When Strongbow once (an Earle of rare renowne), Severn, so that to Chepstowe may come grete shippes.” A long time since, the lord and maister was The ruins crown the brow of the precipice forming (In princely sort of castle and of towne. the right bank of the Wye, and the northern walls are Then after that, to Mowbray it befell, close to the edge; the rest of the fortress being defended Of Norfolke Duke, a Forthie known full well; by a moat, and its own lofty towers. Who sold the same to William Harhert, knight, The ground plan was divided into four courts. The That was the Earle of Pembroke then by right." first, which was entered by a Norman gateway, con- We now approach a passage of more stirring inters tained the great baronial hall, the vast kitchen, and in the history of the fortress. apartments on a scale of considerable grandeur. At the Early in the civil wars, Chepstow was carrisoned for south-castern verge of this court is the keer, or citadel, the king: until. in 1645. Colonel Morgan, governor ni? now called Harry Marten's tower. The second court | Gloucester, at the hea:1 of 300 horse, and 400 font, an! contains no architectural remains, except the walls; but assisted by the mountaineers, with little difficulty maka in the third is a remarkable building usually designated himself master of the town: and, in a few days, eriti “ the chapel,” and seeming to have formed one magnifi- pelled the governor. Colonel Fitzmorris, to surrender cent galleried apartment. The fourth court was sepa- the castle. But the fortress was afterwards surprised by rated from the rest by a moat, which was crossed by a the Royalists, under Sir Nicholas Hemys, who, in the drawbridge. absence of the governor, by means of a secret om The building of the castle is ascribed, in Domesday spondence, obtained possession of the western gie, ab! Book. to William Fitzosborn, Earl of Hereford. It was made the garrison prisoners of war. On this entit, inherited by his third son, Roger de Bristolio, who was Cromwell marched against it in person, took posar deprived of his estates, and condemned to perpetual im- of the town. but assailed the castle without sacra prisonment for rebellion. Of this fierce Norman baron, though garrisoned only by 160 men. He then les Dugdale has preserved the following characteristic anec-Col. Ever, with a train of Artillery, Feren companie dote: of foot, and four troops of horse, to prosecute the six “Though he frequently used many scornful and The carrison, however, held ont valiantly, until the contumelious expressions towards the king, vet he was provisions were exhausted: and even then refused to pleased, at the celebration of the feast of Easter, in a surrender ur der promise of quarter, hoping to som solemn manner, (as was then used.) to send to this Earl by means of a boat which they had provided for this Rodger, at that time in prison, his royal robes, who so purpose. A soldier of the parliamentary army, kos: disdained the favour, that he forthwith caused a great ever, swam across the river, with a knife between ... fire to be made, and the mantle, the inner surcoat of teeth, ent the cable of the boat, and brought it 994: silk, and the upper garment, lined with precious furs, the castle was at length forced, and Sir Nicholas to be suddenly burnt. Which bćing made known to Hemys and forty men slain in the assault. This ered! the king, he became not a little displeased, and said, was considered by the parliament so important that it Certainly he is a very proud man who has thus abused captain who brought the news was rewarded with 695 me; but, by the brightness of God, he shall never come pounds; and a letter of thanks was sent to Col. E se out of prison as long as I live! Which expression was and the officers and soldiers engaged in that service. fulfilled to the utmost, for he never was released during In 1645, the castle, with the other estates beloneta the king's life; nor after, but died in prison.” to the Marquis of Worcester, were settled upon 01727 In the reign of Henry I., Chepstow Castle passed into Cromwell; but were given back to the Worces'er faná the possession of the Clare family; of whom Richard de at the Restoration. Clare was surnamed, like his father, Strongbow. and was Next comes a tale of captivity in the castle, what famous for his Irish adventures. Esponsing the cause for a long period was regarded as a political martyredc. of Dermot Macnaugh, King of Leinster, against Roderic The sufferer was Henry Marten, one of the jeten the Great, King of Connaught, upon the promise of of Charles I., who was confined here twenty years at: Dermot's daughter for a wife, and his kingdom for an the Restoration. inheritance, the brave soldier landed at Waterford in Marten appears to have been one of the most zcales 1174; married the princess ; with 1200 men conquered opponents of royalty. He does not seem to have the promised kingdom, and took possession of Dublin, himself of irreproachable character, if we may co the capital. This double fortune, however, so offended | Anthony Wood, who relates that, “being authorized !o Henry II., that. in high dudgeon at this presumption Parliament, about 1642, Marten forced open a great so of a subject, the king confiscated his estates, and car- chest within the college of Westminster, and thennetin ried an army over to Ireland, for the purpose of an- the crown, robes, sword, and sceptre, belonging anzea: nexing Leinster to the English crown. Strongbow to King Edward the Confessor, and used by all on ki. submitted ; abandoned Waterford and Dublin to his at their inaugurations." With these regalia, Marien, feudal master; was restored to his estates, and made the recklessness of scornful humour. invested Go constable of Ireland. Wither, the Puritan satirist, who, thus crowned In By the marriage of Strongbow's daughter, (he having royally arrayed, exhibited himself to the bystandes no male issue,) Chepstow Castle next came into the hands Yet Marten was a member of the High Court of ! of one of the greatest men of his time, William, marshal | tice, regularly attended the trial of Charles, was pre of England, lord protector of the kingdom ; and by the when the sentence was pronounced, and signed marriage of his daughter, (for although he had five death-warrant. A shameful story is also relatat e song thev all died without issue,) it fell to Hugh Bigod, Cromwell and Marten, when about to sign, spaiter Earl of Norfolk. This daughter was Maud, remarkable ink over each other! However, these two i for having been in her widowhood created marshal in quarrelled at last; Marten opposing Cromweil's ar!. a a 66 tion to become king, saying, “if they must have a king | the garden picked some rich, dark wall-flowers as he he had rather have had the last than any gentleman in passed them. England; he found no fault in his person, but in his “ Hester,” he said, as he stood beside the old woman's office." chair; "you do not recollect me ?" After the Restoration, Marten surrendered, with other “ No, indeed, sir, I don't,” she replied, after stedfastly regicides, to the king's proclamation. He was con- surveying him. demned to perpetual imprisonment, and was removed Neville smiled, but it was mournfully. from the Tower to Chepstow Castle. Here he was “ Bless me !" cried the old woman, resting her hands treated with lenity; was permitted to spend his pro- on her knees, and gazing up in his face; "there cerperty as he pleased ; to enjoy the society of his wife; tainly is something in your smile that I ought to know.” to receive visits, and even to return them in the Indeed there is, Hester; and my name you cannot neighbourhood, accompanied by a guard. He died of have forgotton,-it is Neville.” apoplexy, in the twentieth year of his confinement, and “Neville !-Is it possible ?-You are Mr. Edmund, seventy-eighth of his age. He was buried in the chan then. That ever I should live to see it! My poor young cel of the parish church at Chepstow. Hence the follow-mistress! Ah! Mr. Edmund, how little did you or I ing passage is a poctical exaggeration : think that you would come back to find this poor old “For thirty years, secluded from mankind, withered body, and not to find her !” And she raised Here Marten lingered. Often have these walls her bony hands to her face, and was for a while overEchoed his footsteps, as with even tread powered with the painful recollections which his pre sence awakened in her. He paced around his prison. Not to him Did nature's fair varieties exist; Neville was silent. His companion never was so for He never saw the sun's delightful beams, many minutes together, so she now recommenced :Save when thro' yon high bars he pour d a sad When you stopped at my gate, I felt, I don't know And broken splendour." why nor wherefore, for you are altogether changed, Mr. Edmund, that it was no stranger that was there. Now, The thirty years must be diminished to twenty; and if Miss Juliet had come down to me, as she often does, the seclusion from mankind must be understood to be and said, “Mr. Edmund is coming home, Nurse,' I might as easy as captivity would permit. This explanation have fancied that old times were come back again,--for may abate the tourist's anxiety to read Marten's epi- she is just my young lady to my eyes.". taph, written by himself, and freshened, by order of the Neville started. How chanced it that his own wild churchwardens, in 1812; but, magna est veritas, et thoughts were the first that found utterance from the lips preraltbit. of her whem he sought that he might learn the history The castle remains are now, as our engraving shows, of the past? He conquered his agitation, and replied: a picturesque but crumbling group ; intermixed with -"Hester, I should think that you could tell me as foliage and clustering evergreens, mantling the decay of much of what passed after my departure as any one art with the luxuriance of nature. In June last, the can." Chepstow Horticultural and Floricultural Show was Now perhaps it may seem strange that Neville thus held in the courts of the Castle, in which were gaily sought the side of this aged rustic to listen to facts and decorated tents and brilliant displays of flowers. “ The comments,-nay, more,-to give utterance to feelings, effect,” says a report of the fete, “ was enchanting and --all of which he would hush to silence in the intermagical. Indeed, the foregone associations connected course between himself and Markham. Why does he feel with the spot chosen by the committee, viz. the castle, it more endurable to listen to her unhesitating rehearsal, for the exhibition ; the contrast of its modern uses to its in her common phraseology, of circumstances which primitive intentions, when each massive tower bade de Markham would tremble to make known in the most fiance to its hostile intruder; when the eastern portal | guarded terms? There is something in the simplicity was defended by two massive latticed gates, iron bolted with which the poor mention the most startling and and bound, and by two ponderous portcullises; as a heart-breaking truths, which has a less painful effect whole, the gay scene could not be contrasted with the than the timid allusions made to them by the more past but with reflections of the most pleasurable nature.” educated. Again and again the old woman touched on This, in truth, were a much fitter subject for the muse the likeness which his friend's daughter bore to her than Marten's captivity! who should have been his bride, and declared that the likeness was borne out in her sweet and gentle temper; and Neville felt, that again and again could he return to THE MERCHANT.! her cottage, to hear her pursue the same theme. At length he said : “She seems to me more grave and silent than--The merchant had not yet visited all his friends, and than is natural at her age.” he wandered away by himself in the direction of a little Aye, indeed, she was blithe enough when you were thatched cottage on the borders of the common. Some here ;--but, Mr. Edmund, if you had come a few months yew trees, trimmed in grotesque shapes, formed an arch- ago, you would not have had occasion to complain that way over the entrance into the garden, which was in Miss Juliet wanted life ;-no, indeed. It did me good to see her coming with her merry laugh, that I was perfect order. The most scrupulous cleanliness and sure to hear before she was in right; but now I watch neatness reigned within and without this little abode, her creeping along the common; and once, I declare, and were equally remarkable in the person of its pro- she passed the very gate, not knowing it, and turned prietor, an old, attenuated, wrinkled dame, in closely back again with a start. Oh! it is a sad thing to see crimped cap and folded kerchief, who sat in a wicker her; and enough to make your heart ache! She looks chair, so placed as to afford her a view of her garden she's a going the same way!” so like her who went before her, that I can't but think and gate. Neville cast a look around, which was evi Neville gave a deep sigh. dently not the scrutiny of a stranger, but that of one “ What ails her, Nurse ?-Do they not mark this who was seeking familiar things. The old woman, change, and care for her health ?" whose curiosity was easily stirred, cried : • What ails her! Ah! Mr. Edmund, what is it that walk in, sir, and gather some flowers ?" ails young folk !-- You have not yet forgotten! But the Neville silently accepted the invitation, and entering other day she was standing just where you stand, look ing so pale and sad--and I said to her: “Don't let (1) Continued from things press too heavily on your young heart; pray CILAP. V. “ Won't you p. 229. a CHAP. VÌ. 66 don't ! In a moment she was as red as that damask / ask from you is candour, and believe me that to serve rose, and she cried : “What do you mean, Nurse? No. you will be the utmost happiness I can know." thing presses on my heart.' But I know very well that Juliet strove to speak, but could not. The anguish there does.” of her countenance betrayed no common gries, and “ Tell me all you know, Hester. I don't ask from deeply distressed her companion. curiosity.” “I will not leave you till you reach home," he said, “But here she comes herself, sir;" and Juliet was in tones of regret and self-reproach, and they porci within a few steps of the gate. Her arrival entirely slowly down the shady lane which led to the Grange, changed the nature of the discourse. A few kind and When within a short distance from the house, Julie: cheerful words passed between her and Hester, and then began in a low voice, which trembled at first, but grew she left the cottage, accompanied by Neville. firmer as she went on :“ I hope Hester is a favourite with you all,” he said. “Mr. Neville, I cannot part from you without sarin; “She stands high in the list of the few friends England a few words in reply to an offer of such unboundede has to afford me.' nerosity and kindness. I feel indeed that you are no “Oh, yes, we all love her for her warm heart, and for stranger to us in heart, and I will show you the candoc a cheerfulness and merriment which one little expects you desire. The grief which you hare marked in to find at her age, and not often in her class. I don't is one which no remedy which you can propose cocii think such gaiety is common among the poor; I sup- possibly remove. Pray forget its existence, and Deve! pose hard toil and hard fare wear down their spirits, recur to it again.” and of the first Hester has had her share. Whenever “I cannot bear to see you as you are, Juliet," sai. we come to see her, however sick or weary we find her, Neville, in a tone of deep feeling. she is always full of life before we quit her.” “Nor shall you,” replied Juliet, with a dignity “ You,” said Neville, in a low voice,“ must be espe- beyond her age. “I have said that you can do nothic: cially dear to her, not only for your own sake, but for for me, but I can do much for myself, and with the ai the sake of one whom she sees again in you.” of Heaven, so I will. I will not long sadden those who He felt as if, in painfully uttering these words, he love me by outward dejection." taught Juliet to expect from him that deep and fervent “Nay, Juliet,” interrupted Neville, glancing vir love which filled his heart, and revealed to her the ne- alarm at her slight form and pailid cheek, “ tai bei cessity of its existence; and so to have done was some your strength too severely." relief. “I am much better than I have been," she said, in her former tremulous tone, and for the first time a flood ci tears came to her relief. Neville, during the remainder of their walk, was as Oh, Juliet ! if, on further deliberation abstracted and spiritless as Juliet in her most dejected Urge me not, urge me not,” exclaimed Juliet, rekao moments. She attributed his sadness to the remem- mently. “You tempt me-and it is to certain misery brances of the past brought before him by the old do- These mysterious words ended their discourse. mestic with whom he had been conversing, and she was hastily opened the gate of the shrubbery, and, poictie deeply touched and interested when she perceived that out to Neville a path which led to the house, she abrupit years had not impaired his constancy, nor chilled his turned into another. affections. She was inclined to muse on what seemed to her, smarting from recent disappointment, almost a phenomenon. She could not consider this faithful love Neville did not ask himself directly, whether art without a disposition to repine, for she deemed his suf- secret joy mingled with the pain which it cut bis ferings, bitter as they were, in nature preferable to those to see his scheme for Juliet's happiness overthur which she had undergone. Absorbed in these reflec- He soon forgot himself to think solely of her, and the tions, she walked sadly and silently by his side, little compassion which such thoughts awakened led lum aware how much his thoughts were occupied by her; back again to his generous projects. As he passed the at length she felt that his eyes were fixed on her face, evening with his friend, he could not abstain from and that tears were stealing down her cheek. She proaching the subject, and at length he repeated to him turned her head away hastily. all that had passed. Mr. Markham's eyes glistened as “Juliet," said Neville, kindly, “surely I am a very he heard him; joy beamed in them though they sai old friend, if a very new acquaintance. There need no with tears. preliminaries to intimacy between us. Let me speak “She is a matchless girl !” he exclaimed, with inte to you henceforth always in the former character. "My pressible emotion. “She is the most high-minded, t. first visit to your home must soon end. Impatience to noblest creature ! She speaks truly," he continas see my dearest friend brought me here in such haste after a pause, with more calmness. “Juliet has a naic that I must depart again with no less speed; but I energy which will not allow her to remain dowoca, would, before I go, speak to you on subjects with which She has many to love, and she has many duties to per no stranger intermeddleth. Why should I speak to form, and she does perform them with all the ardouro you as a stranger, Juliet,--to you, the child of my friend, an affectionate heart and a high spirit. I trust checó and far more to me than that alone could make you. I dently that there is enough around her to enable a strong have returned to England, Juliet, without relations, mind in all the vigour of youth to rally from dere? without friends; I bring with me princely wealth, and affliction than hers has been; for, though bitter, it la my chief object is to advance the interests and the hap- not of a nature to be lasting. Still I confess that to set , piness of my friend's children. I came here hoping to as we do at present, resignation holding the place oí find no uneasiness that I could not remove. I discover happiness, is a spectacle which touches us deeply.", it where it grieves me most to see it. From your own “But must this be?" cried Neville. “Can norbins lips I would learn if I can do anything to promote your be effected to restore the latter?" happiness.” Mr. Markham extended his confidence further, at Juliet made no reply, nor raised her eyes to his. She related these facts to his friend. The former incumben turned very pale, and trembled violently. Neville, in of the living now held by Mr. Villiers, (and the resides some alarm, drew her arm within his, exclaiming :- at the Rectory, so near to the Grange,) had been 3 de "I have been too abrupt where I should have spoken of good education and considerable abilities, who ekon most guardedly. Do not try to answer me, Juliet ! out a scanty stipend by preparing young men for the Only think on what I have said, and communicate your entrance into the Universities. These so-called popus wishes to me in any way you like. Consult with your enjoyed, however, the main disposal of their own tine parents, and let your father speak with me. All that I l and profited as little or as much as pleased themse: CHAP. VII. TAMING A SHREW. by the powers of instruction certainly possessed, but which he communicated to her that night, she fell not certainly exerted, by their tutor. Among those asleep and dreamed that she saw Lyttelton Harvey entrusted to his care, was the son of a great man, at repentant at the feet of her pale child ; and, before it was least in his own estimation very great, for Sir Ralph clear whether she would spurn him from her with maHarvey was a man of very old family, and of unbounded jestic scorn, or whether she would melt into forgiveness, pride, though by no means superabundantly wealthy. she awoke again to contemplate what she considered as His son Lyttelton Harvey was handsome, impetuous, sober certainty, Juliet's future endowment with at least evidently headstrong, apparently resolute. His society a vast portion of the merchant's wealth. was generally fascinating to those of his own age, it was especially so to the young and lovely girl whom he felt impelled to please by every means in his power. In a short time he was Juliet's passionate adorer. Mrs. Markham was not a very wise woman, Mr. Markham FRANK FAIRLEGH; not a very prudent man-at least so Neville gathered OR, OLD COMPANIONS IN NEW SCENES. By F. E. S. CHAP. X. to his house; he referred him to his father for a sanction of his passion, to time as a test of his earnestness. In consequence of these injunctions, he discovered that “Why did you prevent me from giving that insolent Lyttelton was rather rash than resolute. His arbitrary scoundrel the lesson he deserved?" was Oaklands's first father had been from his earliest years the object of his observation as we left the quadrangle in which Lawless's fear, and he quailed in his presence, though, apart from rooms were situated; “I do not thank you for it, Frank.” him, he boasted of independence. Time also led him “My dear Harry,” replied I, “you are excited at to consider that it was not wise for a man so young, present; when you are a little more cool, you will see and born to such hereditary honours, who might com- that I could not have acted otherwise than I did. Even mand a choice of the beauty, or rank, or wealth of Eng supposing I could have borne such a thing myself, land, to ally himself with one as destitute of the two what would have been said of me, if I had allowed you more solid advantages as she was richly endowed with to fight in my quarrel ? no honourable man would have the first, and with “ all with which Nature halloweth permitted me to associate with him afterwards.” her daughters." “But I don't see that the quarrel was yours at all," He began to acquiesce in the superior wisdom which returned Oaklands; "your share of it was ended had withheld him from carrying out a rash purpose, and, when the toast afrair came to a conclusion; the rest of though he blushed to avow the complete change, he the matter was purely personal between him and went so far as to inculcate resignation to Juliet, and to myself.” evince that he was an apt scholar in the lesson he taught. “ How can that be, when the origin of it was his Juliet was quicksighted, and had more than a common doubting, or pretending to doubt, the truth of the anecdignity and delicacy of perception. She recognised the dote which I related ?" inquired I. “ No; depend upon alteration, and, smarting under the grief and the humi-it, Harry, I have acted rightly, though I bitterly regret liation, she made it clearly known to Mr. Lyttelton now having gone to the party, and so exposed myself Harvey, that she fully appreciated the wisdom of her to all this. I have always looked upon duelling with the father's conduct, and the meek submission of his own. greatest abhorrence; to run the risk of committing murShe returned some foolish tokens which were to have der, for I can call it by no milder name, when, at the very lived with her in life, and to have lain with her in the moment in which the crime is consummated, you may grave. Life is short, but we outlive many things which fall yourself, and thus even the forlorn hope of living to had a promise of durability. Mr. Lyttelton Harvey repent be cut off from you, appears to me little short of returned no more. It was almost equally fortunate for madness. On one point I am resolved,--if I do go out Juliet that Mr. Halifax, his tutor, departed soon after with him, nothing shall induce me to fire at him; 1 wards, giving place to Mr. Villiers. The advantages will not die a murderer, at all cvents.". which Juliet derived from this change were not confined “Should your life indeed be sacrificed," said Oaklands, to those which he conferred on her by his full and excel- and his deep voice trembled with emotion as he spoke, lent discharge of all the pastor's duties. He brought “I will follow this man as the avenger of blood, fix a with him to the rectory a sister whose whole life had mortal insult upon him wherever I meet him, and been passed in his home; one who 'was endeared to him shoot him like a dog, convinced that I shall perform a not only by her devoted love and excellent qualities, righteous act in so doing, by ridding the world of such put by being one of those doomed to pain which admits a monster !" of little alleviation from human skill, -set apart to serve I saw by his manner, that it would be useless to attempt in suffering,-a spectacle involved in mystery, and never to reason with him at that moment,-his warm feelings, so be looked on but with awe. Miss Villiers became to and the fiery, though generous, impulses of his impetuJuliet the best and wisest of earthly friends. To a heart ous nature, had so completely gained possession of him, of peculiar tenderness she joined the most enlightened that he was no longer a reasonable creature,- we thereand impartial views of life. Her understanding was fore walked in silence to my rooms, where we parted ; righly cultivated, her judgment sound, her penetration I declining his offer to remain with me till I should ucute, and her sympathy lively. Beside her couch Juliet | learn the decision of Lawless and his friends, on the spent many hours, and none without learning some plea of wishing to be alone, (which was, indeed, a true esson of high import. She had already regained her one,) although my chief reason for so doing was to prealmness; for cheerfulness she was yet striving. The vent the possibility of Oaklands saying anything in his sitrength of her resolution had this day been tested, and present excited state of mind, which, if repeated, might sier father rejoiced to find that it had withstood all in any way involve him with Wilford. emptation to strive to win back what he esteemed well My first act, when I found myself once more alone, Ost. He was convinced that Juliet's happiness could was to sit down, and endeavour calmly to review the lot be ensured by the recall of her youthful lover. situation in which I was placed. In the event of their Whether this truth was equally impressed on the mind deciding that the affair might be arranged amicably, of his wife he somewhat doubted, and, though she my course was clear,-I had only to avoid Wilford as | offered no contradiction to his comments on the facts much as possible during the time I should remain at |