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And feel the shadow of the grave Long ere the grave Itself be gained." L. E. L.

" you equal, dearest Guido, to hearing a letter read which has arrived this morning from Richard Arden?" said Francesca, approaching the bedside of the invalid with that light step which seems born of the stillness of a sick room—lost in the deep-drawn breath of exhaustion and pain.

"I have been thinking so much about him!" exclaimed Guido. "Are we likely to see him again? Methinks he must return; none can with impunity sever every link that binds them to their kindred and to their country. Earth were too desolate without some resting-place."

"He has, indeed, found a resting-place, but a gloomy one. He has by this time entered the monastery of La Trappe."