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 angel. I will not be the one to sever you from my side."

"You are right, Eugene," said Lester, who was supporting Ellinor, not yet recovered,—"Let her go with us; it is but common kindness, and common mercy."

Madeline uttered a cry of joy, (joy even at such a moment!) and clung fast to Eugene's arm, as if for assurance that they were not indeed to be separated.

By this time, some of Lester's servants, who had from a distance followed their young mistresses, reached the spot. To their care Lester gave the still scarce reviving Ellinor, and then turning round with a severe countenance to Walter, said,—"Come, Sir, your rashness has done sufficient wrong for the present; come now, and see how soon your suspicions will end in shame."

"Justice, and blood for blood!" said Walter, sternly,—but his heart felt as if it were broken. His venerable uncle's tears—Madeline's look of