Look ye, sir,' resumed he, turning to his other neighbour, and pointing past me with his umbrella, 'that's the Hall: grand park, you see, and all them woods--plenty of timber there, and lots of game.

Hallo! what now ?' This exclamation was occasioned by the sudden stoppage of the coach at the park-gates.
'Gen'leman for Staningley Hall ?' cried the coachman and I rose and threw my carpet-bag on to the ground, preparatory to dropping myself down after it.
'Sickly, sir ?' asked my talkative neighbour, staring me in the face.

I daresay it was white enough.
'No.

Here, coachman!' 'Thank'ee, sir .-- All right!' The coachman pocketed his fee and drove away, leaving me, not walking up the park, but pacing to and fro before its gates, with folded arms, and eyes fixed upon the ground, an overwhelming force of images, thoughts, impressions crowding on my mind, and nothing tangibly distinct but this: My love had been cherished in vain--my hope was gone for ever; I must tear myself away at once, and banish or suppress all thoughts of her, like the remembrance of a wild, mad dream.

Gladly would I have lingered round the place for hours, in the hope of catching at least one distant glimpse of her before I went, but it must not be--I must not suffer her to see me; for what could have brought me hither but the hope of reviving her attachment, with a view hereafter to obtain her hand?
And could I bear that she should think me capable of such a thing ?--of presuming upon the acquaintance--the love, if you will--accidentally contracted, or rather forced upon her against her will, when she was an unknown fugitive, toiling for her own support, apparently without fortune, family, or connections; to come upon her now, when she was reinstated in her proper sphere, and claim a share in her prosperity, which, had it never failed her, would most certainly have kept her unknown to me for ever?
And this, too, when we had parted sixteen months ago, and she had expressly forbidden me to hope for a re-union in this world, and never sent me a line or a message from that day to this.