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Rh tenderness, or her words grew eloquent with feeling and thought. Lorraine's future destiny was a stirring and a brilliant one. Lord Byron says, what does a great man purchase by the devotion of his whole life but

Still, it is something to have a name "familiar as a household word"—a picture, the worst print from which is popular—and also an exceedingly handsome bust: all these were in Edward Lorraine's futurity. When Miss Arundel's will was opened—that paper which it was her last earthly act to sign—It was found that, after having amply provided for all the old dependants of her house, and bequeathed a few legacies-—slight marks of affection to friends not one of whom was forgotten—Beatrice de los Zoridos was constituted sole heiress. One request was subjoined—that Arundel Hall should be pulled down. "I could not endure that another race should dwell in the house of my fathers" Of course the injunction was fulfilled. The wheat now springs up over the dwelling-place of the ancient house of the Arundels.