bill of sale should be issued, disposed of all that would be cumbrous of removal, packed up such as she selected, and accompanied by the boy and the Othello servant, departed for the continent. Ere long the English bungalow, and all the associations. were recounted as things that were.

The deceased had in early life gone to India, and after an adventurous and equivocal course returned with a splendid income. In the outset of his career, as a minion to Clive, he had unscrupulously aided in the oppression and exactions carried on, under the spurious name of "right," against a docile and unoffending people. Warren Hastings had also found in him a convenient tool; with the cruel policy preferred against the ill-treated Begums he was reprehensively concerned, nor were his hands unstained by the blood of Nuncumor. A sycophant and a toad-eater to those in power, a tyrant and merciless avenger towards those over whom he himself could lord, he had obtained favours, and through these had been the robber of the defenceless-of those who had

no appeal. When sated with booty and enriched with the wages of wrongfulness, he resolved to come back to his native country, and vainly hoped to pass the remainder of his days in affluence and ease. He built, he planted, he caroused and pleasured, sought relief in a thousand occupations, tried in their turn-but wherever he wandered, he was another Cain, and he bore the stamp of misery on his brow. The mother of the child was not his wife. He had promised and betrayed her, and having in the loss of virtue and self-respect lost her all, she had stooped to accept a hiding-place from the censorious gaze of the world, beneath the rooftree of her seducer. In expiation of former guilt he bequeathed liberally to charities, and essayed to appease the wrath of an offended heaven by the offer of sacrificial gifts, when he could himself no longer enjoy them.

During some years the mother and her boy resided at Munich, and the latter received the finish of his education at the far-famed university of Heidelberg. Immediately after leaving college his parent sickened and died.

Her income was now added to his own, and when the ebullition of his sorrow had subsided he felt that he was rich, and that the world with all its fascinations and gaieties lay enchantingly before him. He travelled through several countries, dissipated here and pleasured there, and when surfeited with novelty and tired of hurrying from place to place, he halted and sunk into a listless repose, and under the gratulatory impression that he had seen the world. He erroneously imagined that in hastily visiting the Forum, briefly ruminating on the Appian Way, surveying Ida and Ilissius, and in idly passing through the valley of Jehosephat, that he had studied men and manners in the broad and open volume of nature-that he had become, in fact, a proficient in the study of his kind, and that in opening life he was well versed in humanity. But there are pseudo-philosophic travellers now, those who vaunt of what they have seen and learnt, as it was then your boast, Theodore Millman.

After a lengthened sojourn at Prague, Theodore repaired to the French capital, and

the period of his migration thither was during those gay and licentious days in which folly and festivity, marked the short duration of the first empire.

The saloons of the Tuilleries were frequently crowded with the beautiful and brave, fêtes and fashions succeeded a reign of terror and blood, and well nigh every fifth respectable man ostentatiously wore his decoration. That flood of scepticism, or rather open and avowed infidelity, which the revolution had poured upon society, was now giving melancholy evidence of the social wreck and moral impurities it had produced. An unconfiding, loose, dissoluteness of manners was everywhere painfully apparent, and the children of the Worshippers of Reason were eloquent examples of what a general renunciation of religion can effect. Women of title and rank deemed it not indecorous, nor wrong, to carry on flirtations and intrigues with gay cavaliers, who were in reality nothing less than accomplished libertines. Domestic virtues, the harmless pastimes of simple homes, and these holy bonds which are the safeguards

in civil and enlightened life, were laughed at or entirely disregarded. Hollow ambition, empty vanities, and shameful profligacies had set their brazen stamp on all classes and orders there was neither stability in the present nor faith in the future.

Young Theodore's personal attractions were the chief and remote cause of all his after-life misfortunes. He captivated the heart of a Parisian lioness. Through this volatile and misguided woman he gained the entrée to the best circles in the metropolis. Youthful and profuse, he lavished upon his patroness the most costly presents, and through her unsuspecting or heedless husband, he was not only introduced to the Imperial presence, but he became initiated into all the mysteries of gambling-robbery. In three twelvemonths two-thirds of his patrimony had gone. With principles naturally lax, and having by gentle transitions glided from one species of villainy to another, he soon lent his hand to any scheme which iniquity suggested. Still he swam on the surface of society, and verily hath the Gre