Almost at the very time that Andrew was holding his first interview with Emily, Mr.Winters was listening to a brief account of his return, with some of the pleasing incidents immediately attendant thereon.

In a meeting with the young man shortly afterward, he was prepossessed in his favor, and when he saw that he was disposed to renew the old intimate relations with Emily, he did not in the least object.
Thus, after a lapse of over twenty-five years, two families, each possessed of substantial virtues, and with social qualities forming a plane for reciprocal good feeling, but which had been forced apart by the narrow prejudice and iron will of Mr.Howland, came together in a marriage of two of its members.

Alas! how much of wrong and suffering appertained to that long period during which they were thus held apart! How many scars from heart-wounds were left; and these not always painless! Can any summing up of the causes and consequences set forth in our story give force to the lessons it teaches?
We think not; and therefore leave it with the reader to do its own work..