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Rh wishes were realized; he required nothing farther; his measure of happiness was complete on this side Heaven! Yielding, therefore, to solicitations so enforced, the General revoked his intention, finding truly that no equivalent he had in his power to make, could in any way answer to the handsome settlement made upon his daughter by her generous-minded partner.

The wedding taking place according to the arrangements stated, Lord Deloraine lost no time in repairing with his enchanting bride to the seat of his ancestors. The regrets of parting from her parents, sister, and friends, together with the dear little Rose, whom she had already taught to lisp the word "Mamma!", might have thrown a transient cloud of sorrow around Rosilia, had it not been chased by the delicate attentions of her husband, and the conviction that their absence would be but short.

Oriana, in the sympathy she had felt for her sister during the whole previous preparations for the wedding, had become in a great measure lost to a sense of her own private regrets, having learnt submission to the will of Providence. The loss of Philimore, and the subsequent sufferings she had endured in relation to that event, had softened her temper and rendered her more reflective. Thus her days passed on, and not unblessed.

Her wishes and desires, even in the brightest hours of expectation, had ever been moderate; but having lost him in whom those hopes, desires, and