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 until his earnest look brought the blood to her very temples; when recollecting himself, he bent his head, dropping his eyes to the carpet, and replied—

"In the morning, then, will I return, and see Judge Temple; and I will accept his offer of the sleight, in token of our amity."

"Amity!" repeated Marmaduke; "there was no malice in the in (the act that injured thee, young man; there should be none in the feelings which it may engender."

"Forgive our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass agains us," observed Mr. Grant, "is the language of prayer, used by our Divine Master him, and it should be the golden rule of us, his humble followers."

The stranger stood a moment, lost in thought, and then, glancing in his dark eyes, rather wildly, around the hall, he bowed low to the divine, and moved from the appartment, with an air that would not admit of detention.

"'Tis strange, that one so young should harbour such feelings of resentment,"said Marmaduke, when the door closed behind the stranger; "but while the pain is recent, and the sense of the injury is so fresh, he must fee more strongly than in his cooler moments. I doubt not, we shall see him, in the morning, more tractable."

Elizabeth, to whom this speech was addressed, did not reply, but moved slowly up the hall, by herself, fixing her eyes on the little figure of the English ingrained carpet, that covered the floor; while, on the other hand, Richard gave a loud  crack with his whip, as the stranger disappeared, and cried—

"Well, 'duke, you are your own master, but I would have tried law for the saddle, before I would have have given it to the fellow. Do you not own the