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Look on this picture, and on this— The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.".

is wonderful how some words ever were invented, for they express what does not exist—confidence is among the number; confidence is what no human being ever really had in another. Robert Evelyn felt his heart swell, and the tears swim in his eyes, at the touching tenderness with which his father received him; and yet he could not force himself to rely on that tenderness as a guarantee for consent to a marriage—now the horizon which bounded his future of happiness. He shrank from mentioning his pledge to Francesca. It is a painful thing both to parent and child, when the one must own, and the other must hear, the avowal of a love which is dearer than all old ties, and all former affection. There was as much delicacy as distrust in his hesitation. He wandered thoughtfully in