But now your religion shall be my religion, and your life my life.

I shall be of your colour--altogether.

But, John, a limb cannot be wrenched out of a socket, as I have been torn away from my mother, without pain.' 'She will forgive it all when we come back.' 'I fear--I fear.

I never knew her to forgive anything yet.' This was very bad; but nevertheless it was plain to him as it had been plain to Robert and William Bolton, that not because of the violence of the woman's character should the life of her daughter have been sacrificed to her.

His duty to make her new life bright for her was all the more plain and all the more sound,--and as they made their first journey together he explained to her how sacred that duty should always be to him..