esides the books. It opened into a large conservatory; and it was ado

mentally reviewed the history of Mrs. Gallilee's family. What he did next, no person

attorneys? The fact shall be left to answer the question. Mr. Mool had made a mi

ain importance. It is connected with a blushing attorney. It will explain what happened on the rea

eccentric man; but prospered, nevertheless, as a merchant in the city of London. When he retired from bus

umber:- his son Robert, and

hat he kept out of their way. No extraordinary interest was connected with their prospects in life: they would be married - and there would be an end of them. As for the son, he had long since placed himself beyond the narrow range of his father's sympathies. In the first place, his refusal to qualify himself for a mercantile career had made it necessary to dispo

y legacy of ten thousand pounds each. Their brother inherited the estate, and the bulk of the property - not

e children to marry w

wanted no more. His wife's dowry was settled on herself. When he died, he left her a life-interest in his property amounting to six hundred a year. This, added to t

r son, on his coming of age, the widowed Maria might possibly have been

econd also in beauty; and yet, in the

ered it. From the horrid day when Susan became Lady Northlake, Maria became a serious woman. All her earthly interests centred now in the cultivation of her intellect. She started on that glorious career, which associated

ter-attraction in

t no sympathy with his wi

ut the school, the university, and the hospital have all in turn taken his education out of my hands. My mind must b

"drifting about," as he said of himsel

e. But, invested at four percent, it added an annual two thousand pounds to Mrs. Vere's annual one thousand. Result, three thousand a year, encumbered with Mr. Gallilee. On reflection, Mrs. Vere accepted the encumbr

uring this interval of time? In t

made it. After returning the rector's visit, he failed to appear at church. No person with the smallest knowledge of the English character, as exhibited in an English county, will fail to foresee that Robert's residence on his estate was destined to come, sooner or later, to an untimely end. When he had finished his sketches of the picturesque aspects of his landed property, he disappeared. The estate was not entailed. Old Robert - who had insisted on the minutest formalities and details in provi

of him as a voluntary exile in Italy. He was building a studio and a gallery; he was co

ed - and the sisters

this event declared, with perfect truth, that he had chosen a virtuous woman for his wife. She sat to artists, as any lady might sit to any artist, "for the head only." Her parent

consultation, on the subject of their sister-in-law. Was it desirable

ly. If he held to this resolution, his marriage would surely be an endurable misfortune to his relatives in London. "Suppose we write to him," Susan conclu

iew, without a word of protest. She had her reasons - but they were not producibl

rty. She was getting into debt again; and she was meditating future designs on her brother's purse. A charming letter to Robert was the result. It ended with, "Do send me a photograph of your lovely wife!" When the poor "mo

s paid his elder sister's debts. On every occasion when he helped her in this liberal way, she pro

m. It was his duty to have warned her of this, when she questioned him generally on the subject of the Will; and he had said nothing about it, acting under a most unbecoming motive - in plain words, the motive of fear. From the self-reproachful fe