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 and important subjects. He is now labouring to bring this rebellion to an end, and the terms he has proposed are so moderate, that they shall not want my hearty recommendation."

"And have you hopes," said Lady Margaret," to accomplish a scheme so comprehensive?"

"I should be, madam, were every whig as moderate as Morton, and every loyalist as disinterested as Major Bellenden. But such is the fanaticism of both parties, that I fear nothing will end this civil war save the edge of the sword."

It may be readily supposed, that Edith listened with the deepest interest to this conversation. While she regretted that she had expressed herself harsily and hastily to her lover, she felt a conscious and proud satisfaction that his character was, even in the judgment of his generous rival, such as her own affection had once spoke it.

"Civil feuds and domestic prejudices,"