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1839.] But who is Maud—and who is Maud's chaplain, whose skeleton Anne confesses was in her father's house? 'Tis not easy to know without reading the whole poem—but listen to Anne Ayliffe.

More she said, and more she is going to say, about Chaplain Hyde, and Maud, and her own strange, wild, and miserable self, when she exclaims wildly,

She catches him by the arm—and knows his hand. "But whence this monkish cuff?" Sole answer—"Memento mori!" Then comes on her impassioned appeal to the monk—once a man she loved—poured in a low tone into his own ear—a revelation—of necessity broken, and somewhat difficult to understand but making much clear that till then was dark. We now learn that Fitz Hugh's father had left his all in charge to hers, who soon found that that all was but debts, and discharged them without complaint. A wicked uncle of Fitz-Hugh's accused the physician of pillage, and a scheme

To such loose accusations, Fitz-Hugh had basely lent his ear, and at his uncle's instigation, and that of his own false heart, written a letter to his benefactor, threatening to vindicate