Extend me your hand, then, and I will thank and praise God that he is so gracious to me; and my whole existence will be spent in the effort to give you the happiness that you are so well entitled to demand." "And until then ?" asked she, mournfully.
"Until then, we will be constant, and love each other!" cried he, as he gently pressed her in his arms.

She gently repelled him.

"Will you also be true to me till then ?" "True till death!" "They have told me that you would marry the Duchess of Richmond, in order thereby to at length put an end to the ancient hatred between the Howards and Seymours." Thomas Seymour frowned, and his countenance grew dark.

"Believe me, this hatred is invincible," said he; "and no matrimonial alliance could wash it away.

It is an inheritance from many years in our families; and I am firmly resolved not to renounce my inheritance.