I, a guide to youth and innocence,--_I_! No, I have nothing to offer her, dear child! but my love and my prayers.

Let your daughter take her, then,--watch over her, guide, advise her.

For me--unkind, ungrateful as it may seem--were she but happy, I could well bear to be alone!" "But she--how will she, who loves you so, submit to this separation ?" "It will not be long; and," added Lady Vargrave, with a serious, yet sweet smile, "she had better be prepared for that separation which must come at last.

As year by year I outlive my last hope,--that of once more beholding _him_,--I feel that life becomes feebler and feebler, and I look more on that quiet churchyard as a home to which I am soon returning.

At all events, Evelyn will be called upon to form new ties that must estrange her from me; let her wean herself from one so useless to her, to all the world,--now, and by degrees." "Speak not thus," said Mrs.Leslie, strongly affected; "you have many years of happiness yet in store for you.