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246 such and such circumstances, which were but rational to suppose, such and such results would ensue. He was prepared to meet them, but he delighted in no fanciful creations concerning them; he looked back when he indulged in the tender romance of the heart. His father's death was but recent; and no loss can be so severe as our first,—till then, scarcely had we believed in death; now its presence darkens the world; we are haunted by a perpetual fear, for ever whispering of the instability of humanity.

Evelyn took the earliest opportunity of withdrawing from the hall, and, while waiting for the interview which he wished with Henry Cromwell, paced slowly up and down one of the terraces that looked towards the sea. During the preceding days the weather had been unusually stormy; and though the wind had sunk down from its terrific violence, and the giant waves subsided to their wonted level, yet, both on sky and ocean, there were the many slight signs of the late turmoil. The waves heaved with an unquiet motion, while flakes of froth floated upon them, and gleams of phosphoric light scintillated in the distance.

All things in nature are types of humanity; and Evelyn pleased himself with tracing a likeness in the tremulous sea to man's own agitated