And when there had come to him a five-pound note from some admiring magazine editor as the price of the same,--still through the dean's hands,--he had brightened up his heart and had thought for an hour or two that even yet the world would smile upon him.

His wife knew well that he was not mad; but yet she knew that there were dark moments with him, in which his mind was so much astray that he could not justly be called to account as to what he might remember and what he might forget.

How would it be possible to explain all this to a judge and jury, so that they might neither say that he was dishonest, nor yet that he was mad?
"Perhaps he picked it up, and had forgotten," her daughter said to her.

Perhaps it was so, but she might not as yet admit as much even to her child.
"It is a mystery, dear, as yet, which, with God's aid, will be unravelled.

Of one thing we at least may be sure; that your papa has not wilfully done anything wrong." "Of course we are sure of that, mamma." Mrs.Crawley had many troubles during the next four or five days, of which the worst, perhaps, had reference to the services of the Sunday which intervened between the day of her visit to Silverbridge, and the sitting of the magistrates.