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296 coming from the library, and also bowed out in the most cordial manner by Mr. Delawarr himself. Mr. Rainscourt, the head of the party most decidedly opposed to his, with whom on catholic questions, corn bills, free trade, reform—those divers points in the debatable land of our British constitution—he had not an opinion in common; political enemies (and no enmity is so bitter as a political one) from their youth upwards, between whom there had been war "even to the knife,"—who had fought a duel (and even that had failed to reconcile them); what was there in common to them now? Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings—they rarely come single. Edward entered the library; and even Mr. Rainscourt's appearance was forgotten, in the relief of an attentive listener to an angry detail of his disappointment. The interest Mr. Delawarr took in his words was evident enough to have satisfied the most fastidious: still, though the dark brow was sedulously knit, and the pale lip compressed, Lorraine thought he read a passing gleam of exultation—an expression which, though instantly subdued, betrayed that Mr.