But, at the very instant when his hand was raised with a motion of no doubtful import, a whispering voice, close to his ear, pronounced the emphatic words--"Are you a man ?" Not the thrilling tone with which our inimitable Siddons used to electrify the scene, when she uttered the same whisper, ever had a more powerful effect upon an auditor, than had these unexpected sounds on him, to whom they were now addressed.

Tyrrel forgot every thing--his quarrel--the circumstances in which he was placed--the company.

The crowd was to him at once annihilated, and life seemed to have no other object than to follow the person who had spoken.

But suddenly as he turned, the disappearance of the monitor was at least equally so, for, amid the group of commonplace countenances by which he was surrounded, there was none which assorted to the tone and words, which possessed such a power over him.

"Make way," he said, to those who surrounded him; and it was in the tone of one who was prepared, if necessary, to make way for himself.
Mr.Mowbray of St.Ronan's stepped forward.