The reader need hardly be told that that bride was Sophie Mellerby.

When the young Countess came to live at the Manor the old Countess admitted her visits and at last found some consolation in her friend's company.

But it lasted not long, and then she was taken away and buried beside her lord in the chancel of the parish church.
When it was at last decided that the law should not interfere at all as to the personal custody of the poor maniac who had sacrificed everything to avenge her daughter, the Earl of Scroope selected for her comfort the asylum in which she still continues to justify from morning to night, and, alas, often all the night long, the terrible deed of which she is ever thinking.

"An eye for an eye," she says to the woman who watches her.
"Oh, yes, ma'am; certainly." "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth! Is it not so?
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