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Rh After listening patiently to divers plans for forcing the fair recluse from her retirement, "Time will be our best aid; we can do nothing now; leave her," said Lord Mandeville, "to get tired of her monotonous seclusion—to feel how much she has sacrificed. She cannot take the veil for a year—next Spring we will visit Naples again, and I trust our foolish little Emily will have grown happier and wiser." Where there is no choice, there must be submission. They had been very intimate with the English Ambassador's family, and to their care and interest they committed Miss Arundel for the present. Lady Mandeville's last act was to write a long, kind, and earnest letter to Emily, and the next day they sailed for England. The letter never reached the address; and again Emily's heart died within her with the feeling of neglect and friendlessness. Circumstances close around us with a chain. The Ambassador was suddenly recalled; and she was left without a creature in Naples to feel interest in her fate. The Abbess was not one to neglect such an opportunity. She saw that Emily was only acting under the influence of strong, but temporary feeling. Old habits,