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O, youth, thou hast a wealth beyond What careful men do spend their souls to gain.".

" funeral has just passed?" asked Arden, who little suspected that his companions were already informed.

"Sir Robert Evelyn's," answered the lingering follower whom he questioned. It is a sore loss to the whole country; for a kinder master never existed. But his son is like him, God bless him!"

"That," continued Arden, "was the pale fair young man who rode after the coffin?"

"Yes; that was Mr. Evelyn. And, sad though the task be, he may lay his father in peace in the grave; for he never hastened him into it by care or sorrow of his causing; and he watched him like a girl during Sir Robert's last illness."

Arden turned to the Carraras, when Guido, who guessed that Francesca would little wish to