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Rh instantly to announce my name, and tell my father how grieved I am on his account, and how solicitous I am to see him?"

"I cannot, Sir, upon pain of her Ladyship's displeasure," answered the servant; "she will not be intruded upon, and she has given me peremptory orders not to admit any one."

"Even me?" asked the General; "has she in particular mentioned my name?"

"She has, Sir."

Aggrieved, afflicted in the extreme, De Brooke left the door of his dying parent. "Perhaps," thought he, "ere he approaches his end, he may think proper to send for me; surely they will not then deny me!"

That awful and solemn moment was indeed approaching, and Sir Aubrey was heard then to call upon the name of his son: "Aubrey, Aubrey! why does he absent himself, why does he not come to see me?"

Exist there any so savage on the face of the earth, as that the voice of nature or feeling is not sometime or other attended to? Are there any so barbarous who, when all of earth is finally closing upon the view,—the occasion presenting itself without solicitation or seeking for the reconciling of past differences,—can stifle the awakened conscience,