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250 moral code;—we see the mighty voice of prophecy, that spoke aloud of old upon the mountains, working year by year their wonderful fulfilment,—and yet we believe not, or, if we believe, we delay acting upon that belief. Out of evil cometh good. The attention that might have been diverted—the conviction that might have been darkened in the world—were both given entire to the faith that dawned on the subdued and enlightened mind of Emily Arundel. The Bible of Beatrice was their only religious book; but it was read with that simple and earnest belief by which the dark is soonest made light, and the crooked path made straight. Beatrice saw, however, that her friend's health was rapidly declining. Almost hourly her slight form became more shadowy—her large bright eyes still brighter and larger—her cheek varied from a clear, cold paleness, to a rich but feverish crimson. Her beauty was like that which we image of a spirit, or as if it refined and became more heavenly as it drew nearer to its native heaven. She could also see, that, with all the restless anxiety of an invalid, she pined for her own country. "If I could but die in England!" was her haunting thought;