"I am sure you have seen that I could not." "I wish I could have done more; I wish I could have shielded you from the annoyances you have been obliged to endure!" he answered.

"Should we never meet again--" "Oh, but we shall meet again," she interrupted.

"You promised Lord Mount Severn." "True; we may so meet casually--once in a way; but our ordinary paths in life lie far and wide apart.

God forever bless you, dear Lady Isabel!" The postboys touched their horses, and the carriage sped on.

She drew down the blinds and leaned back in an agony of tears--tears for the house she was leaving, for the father she had lost.