Still, Dora, I'm not the person that will ever sneak back to entreat and plead at her feet like a slave, and by that means make myself look still worse in her eyes; I know very well that if I did so she'd despise me.

God bless her, at all events, and make her happy! that's the worst I wish her." "Amen," replied Dora; "you have said nothing but the truth about her, and indeed.

I see, Tom, that you know her well." Thus ended the generous dialogue of Dora and her affectionate brother, who after all might have been induced by her to remain in his native country and share whatever fate it might allot him, were it not that in a few days afterwards, his father found that the only terms on which he could obtain his farm were such as could scarcely be said to come within the meaning and spirit of the landlord's adage, "live and let live." It is true that for the terms on which his farm was offered him he was indebted to Chevydale himself, who said that as he knew his father had entertained a high respect for old M'Mahon, he would not suffer him to be put out.

The father besides voted for him, and always had voted for the family.

"Do what you please with the son," he proceeded--"get rid of him as you like, but I shan't suffer the father to be removed.