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"ROSALIE RATHBORNE; Lo A G oy oA SIN AND SORROW. - BY WATTS PHILLIPPS, : AUTHOR OF ““FOR A WOMANS SAKE,” “DRIVEN FROM HOME,” “JENNY GRAY; Or, A WOMAN'S : . . VENGEANCE,” ETC., ETC + .. CHAPTERIIL. . ~ T A DUEL IN THE SNOW. It was some two or three weeks after the events detailed in our last chapter, and on a brilliantly moonlight night, that Arthur Gresham was walking, for exercise, as he had said, hurriedly backwardsand forwards on the road which led past the mansion of Sir Jonas Rathborne. ‘

Hurriedly, in the first place, because the night was very cold; there had been a heavy fall of snow, followed hy intense frost, ahd roads and fields were firm and hard, and the crisp snow .crackled beneath his feet at every step he trod. , : And in the second place, hurriedly, because his' thoughts were in a tumult, and his busy brain' commanded that his limbs should not be still and idle. = ‘Those letters were still to:Arthur Grésham and his young wife, an unravelled mystery; each day- their situation was becoming more distressing, more harrowing to them both; the time was‘rapidly nearing when Rosalie ~would becéme a mother, and the secret ‘of their marriage. was still undisclosed, and Arthur.was still without courage to reveal it. - Nothing furﬂ;ﬁr had occurred - that could cause them to beliéve they were suspected ; -indeed everything went to prove the contrary, ° , : . Of one- thing now he took good. care+ never for a° moment to be alone with Mistress Augusta Camelford. il Better that he and his young wife should fly and conceal themselves for awhile from Sir'Jonas Rathboérne’s anger, was Arthur’s thoughts, for in her present condition its violent expression would kill poor, tender, and delicate Rosalie; and with her would another life be sacrificed—that other life which she was bearing now within her own.

He knew not what to-do, nor on what to resolve ; for himself come what might; he had nodread; it was for Rosalie, his dear young wife, he trembled. . " Oh, that his good friend Clarence Hartley were now beside him ! . ‘But the wish was vain; Clarence was far away, and in all probability, would not return in time to aid him, . .. What must he do-—:’v%@t musthedo?”

.. And as that desparing thought dashed through his brain, he suddenly stood still—a burst of laughter from several voices, at that moment, rang out upon the still night air, repeated and multiplied by surfounding echoes. - .. ; . ’

Gresham® looked forward, and saw approaching, on the road before him, the bright moonlight rendering every surrounding object as minutely visible almost-as in the broadest light of day, a band of five or six;-evidently young men, all well and fashionably dressed, and clearly, judging by their boisterous tongues and somewhat unsteady gait, all of them considerably flushg ed with wine., =~ = g

"If Gresham- had not been so greatly absorbed with his distressing reflections, he would long before have heard the laughter of these .meén [growing louder as they neared him, and would have avoided them, and the intérraption to his thoughts, which even a moment,s contact-with them would, be certain to produce, But now ‘it was too late for that ; they were within a few yards. of him, and consequences so fatal, that their prognostication “would have seemed liké madness, ‘were to ensue from Arthur’s meeting with one,-at least, of:this seeming1y jovial party.. . ‘When Arthur }?‘-resha.m had arrived face to face -with these men, who had been much too freely indulging in an evening’s carousal, he sought to pass them 'quieciy. snd without the exchange of a word: bur that was not to be, for these bacchanalians formed themselves into a line across the road; and blocked the way to him, while one of their party shouted forth— ' . ““What lonely night-bird have we here ?” Then continued, addressing Arthur, “Are you an owl, or a stray bat, or a ‘highwayman on a-search for plunder ?” - ¢lf the latter, pray have mercy on us. ‘and spare our lives !”’ said another. . “Come,” added a third, “if you are a gentleman say so ?” = : “And if you are nothing more than an honest man, do not be asharged to confess it P’ shouted again the first who had spoken. ® .- 3 : - “Lam, I hope, both an honest man and a gentleman,” Arthur good-humoredly said, ‘having no idea of being offended with ut‘terances which were but the overflowings of the wine cup.. Then, as’ Il)lli?santly, he requested that they would sufier him to pass. But at the first sound of Arthur’s voice, one of these so meurly inebriated young gentlemen had started, and then advanced closely and rudely, and almost stumbled against Gresham, who drew back a step, his anger a little excited. ; “Oho !”” exclaimed this rough assailant, who had not before spoken, “I recognise this fellow.!” " - - wly -

Arthur now, in his turn, advanced, and looked closely at the speaker, who contin-

+ “Yes, I know him, to my/ cost !’-% ; . “And I, too, recognise you, sir!” said Arthur, his voite quivering with a rage he was endeavoring to control, “and cannot understand the meaning of this insult.” - - - “That does not matter to me, and I shall ‘continue to insult you,” said the other. " “Be advised, Mr. Albert Marsden, and say no more,”” Gresham urged. “I can have given you no cause thus to outrage me, and know that when sober ‘;iﬂection ‘shall have come to you, you-will be sorry for your present words.”” | g . : - “Oh, indeed! You think so?”’ Albert Marsden sneered ; and was about to continue, but his*friends gathered ‘around him, and held, and remonstrated with him.

. On the first insulting word which had ‘been hurled at Arthur, he was .held from | inflicting instant chastisement on: Albert Marsden. only by the remembrance of .his Rosalie. Arthur knew to what a blow given and received must lead, and so, for his _young wifé¢’s sake, would endure to the very utmost limit which would leave his honour and his courage unassailed. - ' - Albert Marsden shook himself free of his friends'who had been endeavoring to restrain him, well-knowing what must follow should he continue as he had now begun.! . “A gentleman !”’ shouted Albert Mars-. den, derisively ; “he has told you that he is - gentleman ; well, he has told you a lie —he'is a miserable sneak —a miserable ‘sneak |” : : ““Enongh, sir—enough !”’ Arthur exclaimed, boiling with fury. iy | “Enough for you, perhaps, but not for me ! said the other, “and you must hear more.”” .o . . ““For Heaven’s sake, Marsden, are “you mad ?”’ éxpostulated the young man who had first of all addressed Arthur, ' . “Ah!”? exclaimed Marsden, as if tmddenl; remembering; “to be sure! Look at him ” ‘he pursued, speaking to the friend who was’ still expostulating with him, and pointing ~mockingly towards Gresham —*“this, Ger- | ald, is the daubér—artist he dares to call : If —with whom, as I have already | told you, your fg.ther’wiable widow i 8 s 0 tremendously fascinatetl : 4 " “*Oh, indeed !"” niow sneered Gerald Camélfo%mlonger seeking to interpose and -Btay the insults of which his friend Albert ‘Marsden was 8o extremely lavish. “So this is Mr. Arthur Gresham! Well, I wish him joy of Mistress Augusta Camelford; | and care not how soon he shall give her the |:right to bear his name, that I may cease to | remember ghe has ever borne ours; to the | name of Gresham she would, doubtless, be an honor, to that of Camelford, she is a_ degradation.” © ~ : C | “So, there dre, now, two of ‘you!” Arthur ' ﬁ quietly said. “Well,' go your wlgg, | and suffer me now to pass on mine, and " in Loa L paL SR R e

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in the néxt "hourl” shouted Albért Marsden, furiously approaching Arthur, who, dashing him aside, sent him reeling into the arms of one of his friends, while Gerald Camelford and the rest placed themselves before Arthur, and,resolutely barred his Wa:y. i i ; B i‘? B

All of them %mew how -Albert Marsden had been jilted by Augusta, and when told that his second repulse had been due to Gresham, it may be easily understood with whom were their sympathies. Gerald Camelford reflected a moment, and these were his thoughts:— |+ “Albert Marsden was®a . dead shot; that had been proved. . ; Young Camelford had no reason for wishing that Gresham might be killed, except that which arose from sympathy with the artist’s opponent, and a desire that the widow, whom of course, he how, as he had always done, since her marriage with hig father, most thoroughly hated, should be made to suffer some heavy punishment for all her past iniquities; and what chastisement could be made'so terrible to her ag the death of the man whom, as he'had been assured by Marsden, she loved almost to a state of frenzy. s Consciously or otherwise, mattered not, but Arthur Gresham had destroyed the dearest and most cherished hopes of Albert Marsden, and the latter and Gerald Camelford were fast friends—ergo: Arihur Gresham was the enenjy of both, and must be removed. i : o i But Marsden been drinking heavily, was Gerald Camelford’s next thought, and his hand might prove unsteady should the duel at once occur? - But, no ; Marsden had greatly recovered, was now just sufficiently elevated by the wine he had taken. to be firm and determined, and both hand and eye would be riore steady now than on the morrow, when he would be shattered and tremulous from this night’s debauch. " Thought is rapid, and these reflections occupied the mind of Gerald scarce a moment, and then he said aloud, addressing Gresham— : X ;

“It is inevitable that you should fight with my friend Marsden; and with_this bright nioonlight, by which the merest speck may be perceived at I.know not how many paces distant, I 'cannot comprehend why you should seek a postponement of your encounter.’’ -

~ “Clannot you ?’’ Marsden, tauntingly, exclaimed. = “Then your mental perception must be very limited! I undérstand the gentleman’s wish for delay !’ he continued, even more goadingly. “He would bruit our quarrel abroad,: would place himself under the protection of the law, because he better loves a paint-brush than a pistol bullet.” Arthur Gresham was now, indeed, stung past.all further endurance, and so expressed his readiness to determine at once, and in any way, his bullying a.dvexga_.ry might desire, the quarrel which had been so unjustIy, and, of course, to the artist, so unaecountably fastened upon him. * The otﬁers of the party strove to promote a reconciliation, hut it was now too late.

“Gentlemen,” said. young Camelford, “where shall be fought this duel, now so perfectly resolved upon ?’’ ' “Yonder, in the dell!”’ suggested one of his friends; and the dell was considered to be the very best of all known places for such a piece of work, and the suggestion was adopted. ; P ok Gerald Camelford volunteered to procure pistols from his. own "house, which was’ scarcely half a mile from the spot on which these preliminariés of -a deadly fray were now being: arranged, and with more coolness than these same men would have brought to their preparations.for a feast. - When young Camelford had departed on his errand, the' others' set forth, and: proceeded briskly on their way towards the dell, to reach which they had but a-short distance to traverse; so that it could be only -their impatience for the encounter, or to preven/h their blood from stagnating in the cold of that, frosty night, which caused them thus to hurry forward. .-~ = Arthur Gresham alone walked slowly, und soon were the others considerably.in advance of him; and then Albert Marsden stopped for a moment in his walk .to turn and call out, loudly— : “Are you sure Mr. Gresham, that if left to your own guidance, you will not smistike your way to the dell ?” . Arthur replied not to this last insult; it flew past him and touched him not; indeed, he scarcely heard the words or understood their covert meaning,.he was now so thoroughly absorbed with thoughts of his poor Rosalie.’ } st Should he fall in this encounter, which it was impossible that he had ever done aught to provoke, what, then, would be the fate of his poor young wife ? ‘What would become of her, and of the innocent helpless child of which she soon would be the mother.

* Left to the tender mercies of Sir Jonas :Rathborne and his niece, with no husband, no father living to shelter them, what would be the fate of mother and child ?

" And this duel, so suddenly forced upen him-:so unavoidable now ? /Oh! was Heaven about to punish him that he had made of Rosalie a disobedient daughter? " But no! I]illea\.ven would have pity on her, if not on i :

It was impossible that, ere rushing to this encounter, he should again behold his wife; he could not even warite t> her.. More than the bitterness of death was in the thought that he perhaps was fated never more on earth to behold his darling Rosalie —was not to be pérmitted once to look upon, nor hold within his arms the e¢hild of her bosom. 51 ety I

But these thoughts caused him to tremble, and must, if possible, be shaken aside; 8o he quickened his steps, and strode onwards towards the dell. - : " As'he reached It, Albert Marsden said insolently to him: - : “It is really you? We had begun to fear that, instead.of to this place, you had taken the road towards the dwelling of Sir Jonas Rathborne !’ : y e

That observation produced, apparently, no effect on Gresham; and his antagonist was amazed at the coolness—the calm, resolute courage that he beheld. . B .+ The refulgent moon brilliantly illuminated with its cold, blue light every tree and stump which grew around the dell, in the centre of which Albert and-his friends were now grouped ; while Arthur Gresham leaned thoughtfully against a tree, some paces dist tant from these men, who seemed, all of them, to be his foes, and to be anxious for his death: . B

So, at-least, Arthur believed; but he was wrong. They cared little one way or the other; but, of the two, would perhaps have gjlieferred that there should be no duel at

Snow was thickly spread on ground and ‘bush, covered every bough and bramble; and particles of snow were sparkling Lere and there, in the pale moonlight, with ever varying coruscations. : «“Hark ! what is that?” iuddenly exclaimed one of the party. = . = All listened ; and the rapid “click-clack—-click-clack” of a horse’s hoofs mpon the hard, frost-bound road was disfinctly heard —the sound, at first faint and distant, becoming every instant louder and nearer. It was Gerald Camelford, who, returning ~not, on foot,as he had gone, but wellmounted on oné of his best steeds and at i‘l’f fastest tr’ot—&;gas e?gert h::. 'a,.rr:';re Witbl; he weupons necessary tor gentleman putéher‘yo which nc% now would have power to avert. SESBaL 7 Geraid Camelford soon arrived near the spot where he was awaited, dismounted, secured hic horse o the branch of a tree, and «descended into the dell; - Arthur Gresham was asked if he would choose a second from amongst the men itheve assembled. - . .. 7 g ““Whom they pleased,” he said, calmly; 4t mattered not tz;{hi-m,"—f PBSk Bl ?;;ig&’m.@hwéﬂ or him : Grerald Camelet e e e IR for these might be his last moments upon

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oih his poor young wife—Gf his darling "Ko- ! sale. . , : 3 SR Arther’s second advanced, and- offered % him a choice of pistols. He aroused himself | in a moment, grasped one of the weapons, and followed his second to the spot which | that gentleman had selected as the one on | which Gresham should stand to, receive his adversary’s fire. = 1 | But as Arthur took the ground that had , been chosen for him, one of the party, who | had throughout strivert peacably to adjust i the quarrel that had so unexpectedly arisen, | hastily exclaimed : : ’ 'I : «Place him not there, with yonder tree at !, his back—it would be murder!”- ( “Cowards !’ said Arthur, between his seﬁ‘ teeth, and glancing with keen contempt on | Albert Marsden, and from him to the sec- | onds. \ . uied Then advancing to the. gentleman, who ; had just spoken, Arthur said to him: ° I “You have proved to me, sir, that there, is, at all events, oric man of honor amongsb' my enemies here to-night !”’ R “lam not your enemy, Mr. Gresham,” Was the response. f “Then will you be my second in this mis- | erable affair ?”” agked Gresham. ~ «1f you desire it—yes!” was the reply. | The ground was - marked out afresh, and,| this time, both men fairly placed, évidently to the great chagrin of Albert Marsden L and his friend and second, Gerald Camel- . ford. : : ; f o Should he entrust his last appointed sec-|. ond with a message to poor Rosalie, if his/, should be the lot to fall, as was most probable with so skillful an antagonist? had:. flashed through Arthur’s brain. . «No; for if he did, he must reveal to this’, stranger all that Rosalie was to him, and he'. to herjfor compromise, perhaps, her fame. . Yes, he would be silent, and would place his '+ trust in Heaven to bear him scatheless| through this night’s evil work; or, should!l he fall, to soften to Rosalie the terrible], blow, and give her strength to bear it.”” i] «“Are you ready?” Marsden impatiently, shouted. - il l

“Yes!” Arthur in a loud, firm voice replied. : g ; The signal was given, and the report of »me pistol was followed so sharply by the sther as t 6 blend them almost into one and the same sound. . L e ’

'The smoke from their weapons r?je steadily, and floated away on the dry night air, and then Albert Marsden was seen lying, a huddled heap upon the snow which he, but a moment before, had been *with. such impatient vigor trampling heneath his feet; while Arthur Gresham was reeling, and, but for his second, who caught him in his arms, would also haye fallen to the ground., ;

But Arthur had been but slightly hit in. his left shoulder, and soon he steadied himgolf and approached Albert: Marsden. His term of life would in a few moments end; Arthur’s bullet had passed through his adversary’s lungs, and his warm life’s bloodf wags*gmhing away, dissolving the snow in which he lay, and changing its pure and' solid white into a purple and liquid stream. “My horse is there, fly for a ph_ysicia.n 12 Gerald cried. ! : « “Let no one stir !” said Albert Marsden, very faintly—<“another minude and T _shall have ceased to live!” Then, addressing Gerald Camelford, the dying man faltered slowly, “Seek not to avenge me, Gerald. Mr. Gresham, you are a brave man, and a good shot; my blind rage had rendered my hand unsteady, and now, I—l am glad’ of it; and I—l am rightly punished.” Then he signed to. Gresham to draw nearer to him, and it was in the merest whisper only that he could add,—*“See Laura Hutchinson; say it was my dying wish- that she should tell you all—yes, all!”—and then a faint gasp, and he was. gone—had sought, and found his own death, and” in the very prime of his youthful being. i “Yes, in the morning I will speak with this Laura, Hutchinson,”’ thought Arthur; but he was mistaken, he was not to see her, no: was the mystery of the letters .to be cleared away for many years to come. .

. CHAPTER IV, THE. MORNING AFTER THE DUEL.

At the breakfast-table on the morning following the late eventful scenes, Sir Jonas Rathborne, in company with - Mistress Augusta Camelford, . had seated himself, ‘and, in testy tones, was remarking on -the strange eonduct of his daughter 1. keeping . herself so secluded. This was the opportunity his niece required to still further ingratiate herself in the good opinion of the deluded Baronet. : Ah! how different to her are you, Augusta!” and the baronet sighed in company with his niece.. e And Sir Jonas was right in his observation he - had just made but not in the .sense which he believed—there was, indeed, a vast difference in the -disposition -of ‘the cousins. 5 2 I

“’Tis you, Augusta,” the baronet pres: ently said, whe most are like a daughter to me, and I shall not prove ungrateful for your disinterested love.” . ‘Mistress Camelford gently pressed the hand of her uncle, then carried it to her thin, cold lips. Lo At thHis moment, Rosalie, notwithstand. ing she had 'just previously excused herself on the plea of illness; entered the brealk: fast-room. = . e e kg

. Mistress August Camelford quick!y drop: ped the hand which, slowly and with ‘such sceming emotion, she had raised. .~ = . Rosalie, on entering the breakfast-room, h#d perceived, and had understood that her cousin was adding another link to the chain which she had long been casting around the Baronet; but it could cause her no surprise, nor did it trouble her ; thoughts of her father’s money, and ’twas that, she ¥new, at: which her cousin aimed, had never occupied her rhind, it washer father’s love that was desired by her heart; if Augusta would have left her that, Rosalie without struggle, had yielded to her all the

rest. - : ; i Not of Augusta, nor of her treachery, not even of hex fathe:, nor of the love which sc unjustly he had withdrawn from her, was Rosalie thinking as now she a.nf:ioualy ‘glanced around that room. ol Arthur Gresham was not there. * -

His young wife was, indeed, on this morning, especially, very ill and suffering, and would have dared to offend her fathex by remaining in her own wing of the mansion, which, in-good truth, it was not now fit that. she should leave, but she had| . thought of her husband—who only in the| stealthy way im which we have seen, and at night, could reach her appartments—and of what he would endure when hearing that she was too unwell to meet him, with the others at the breakfast-table, as they had always met since Arthur had been ‘a ‘dweller in the mansion, and to exchange with him that stolen glance to which they were- compelled to limit their morning greeting. . = - e ' - Weak and ill, scarcely able to drag herself so far—yet, for Arthur’s sake, and sométhing, too, perhaps, for her own, for that one, accustomed look would strength-' en the courage which its loss would certainly ‘depress—the fond young wife had struggled to that room, in the full confidence of beholding her husband, and she saw him not—no, Arthur Gresham. was not there. HEE i s But Rosalie was ready with a 'conéo]li;‘igl excuse for her husband’s absence; he told her on the previous night, when about to descend ,in his usual Wa‘.g from her ap‘partments, that he shotld take a brisk walk, and endeavour to decide on how best to proceed with a disclosure which might| ‘not longer be delayed. Arthur had too greatly’%a.tigﬂed himself ; with long “walking and great anxiéty had become exhausted, and go, on that moming, had sleﬁ%t over long, but presently would be with her. 'Yes, that was it; and so, mot daring to 100 k towards the door; she; every :time: it openéd to'admit a servant, listeried with th ~hope that she should hear her hmbang; step, but it came npt';;’mﬂy Qﬁ%{y she beAkl e e torburing f{”m : * :&Wm : “Hends of hoth, wére they again to look. up-

.Jonas Rathborne and his niece could ither of them fail to preceive that Rosailie was very pale—far more pale, even, thas had of late been usual with her. Rosalie meekly hopetiher father would :fogve‘ her, for she was really very unwell.' l \nd the Baronet said there was nothing |l;he’.nm.i:ter with her, in his opinjon, but a imoping discontent, which was most justifiable and most ungrateful, and proved her o possess a very wicked disposition And jhe appealed to Mistress Augusta Camelford bo confirm what he. had said, but that lady lhad, just then, her reasons, as we know, her wishing to conciliate Rosalie, so she sought lto waive the subject. = . tr | “And Mr. Arthur Gresham !” grumblingly resumed the Baronet; “he has chosen shis morning to absent himself from my ibreakfast-table! I thought he had perfectly understood that, having become an %nmate of ullg mansion, he, was expected ulways to conform to'its custom ! . ‘ - But Augusta interposed warmly to avert ibhe Baronet’s anger ‘from him whom .she isonfidently believed was her devoted lover, }md urged that no doubt the artist had ideen working till very late on the previous night on the picture which he was painting for Sir Jonas. ~ | _ But'this was one of the Baronet’s most |ill-tempered morniugs, and he had many {of them, and on such occasions he ‘was not {to be reasoned back into good humour; f%le% was nothing for it but to let him be | ill he should think proper to-recover his amiability. - [ “I do not for get that lam a Baronet !” Tthe old gentleman exclaimed, with a feeling of injured dignity, “of ancient and honour.able ancestry ; and/that I am well entitled to that respect from great and simple | which I have always exacted, and will continue to demand. e | And in a great huff, he despatched.a servant to Arthur Gresham’s room with Sir Jonas Rathborhe’s compliments, and| was Iheto expect the favor: of Mr. Gres °8 | company at breakfast that morning ?* l The Baronet lay himself back majestically in his chair; thus would he conde'scend tolisten to the artist’s excuse|and apologies, and the look of offended dignity which that gentleman would receive would be to him an amply sufficient reproof. Sir ’f Jonas was becoming weary of his dignified attitude, and was commencing to fidgetin a manner whicli‘was anything but majestic, when the servant who had been sent with his masters message returned to say, that Mr. Arthur Gresham had not, last night, slept in the mansion; that early in the evening, he had quitted it, and had not since returned. : s _The three persons to whom this was an-nouned-were, all.of them, struck with great surprise, ?ut with Rosalie’s ‘astonishment was mingled a species of terror. The preceeding night had beeh to her a sleepless one, and she had heard; though very faintly, the reports of those two pistols which had been fired in the dell; that hollow was not so very far from the. Baronet’s mansion, the window of Rosalie’s sleeping chamber looked towards it, and on a still and frosty night sound will travel to an almost inconceivable distance. Those shots, so-little distance, as she believed they must be, from the mansion, and at that strange hour of the night, had greatly startled Rosalie, as awake she lay; with only most unhappy thoughts for her companions and with every nerve unstrung by them. : S Long and vainly did ghe strive to ac~ count satisfactorily to herself for the alarming sounds which she'had heard, and then she shought to banish them from her memory; but even in that could not succecd,§ for still they clung there, inspiring her with a terror ¢f she knew not what; but none the less, a terror which caused her to tremble, until, in the far morning, sleep mercifully came to close her -aching eyes, and to chase from her mind ' images which had become almost appalling. . G - Now, her thoughts connected Arthur with those sounds, which, in the still night, ihad been so terrifying to her; though why ‘ she should do so, she could as little to herself account, as she had been able to drive ‘thence the strange dread which had sprung to her heart so soon as she had heard them; \a,nd which, ever since; had clung to her, to ‘be dissipated by ho one of the many efforts which. she had made to convince herself that her fears were most unreasonable and groundless, were, in effect, but hallucinations engendered:' by an agitated, o’er‘Wrought mind, - ; : ; Had Sir Jonas and his niece but looked towards Rosalie now, they would have seen ‘her ag pale as a ghost, with widely-opened eyes, 'gazing forward into vaeancy; and trembling as though there were before her something as ghost-like as herself. ' But Sir Jonas and Mistress Camelford both were too busy just .then with their own thoughts to notice Rosalie. The ‘Baronet was thinking of his hurt dignity; that an artist, whom he had condescended to employ, only at the request of that very estimable gentleman, Clarance Hartley, should be so very free and unceremonious with his patron’s mansion, entering it, and leaving it when he chose, as though it were‘; amere tavern.,;and the ‘Barcnet a host, who had no right to expect more than the payment of his bill. : ; | Mistress Augusta Camelford’s thoughts were, of coursz, of a very different ‘complexion to those of her uncle; but though differently, she was as greatly annoyed, and as fully perplexed by Arthur’s absence from the mansion for a wlole night, as was the Baronet himself ; and her dignity, too, was somewhat offended; and her jealousy considerably roused. . | Silence had reigned in that breakfast room, since the servant’s announcement .of'i Arthur Gresham’sabsence from the mansion; Sir Jonas and the two ladies had been too busily employed, each with their own paxticular thoughts, for speech. . | - Sir Jonas, however, was about to shape his indignation againgt the artist into words, indeed, he had already commenced to speak, when a young woman smartly, hot“ to say coquettishly attired, burst suddenly into the room, and hurried towards Au‘This unceremonious intrnder tothe Baronet’s mighty presence, was Mistress Camelford’s waiting maid ; and; to some considerahle extent, her confident—was, in ' short, the Laura Hutchinson of whom, though not before seen, we have already heard so much. She was, of short stature, of figure even more slender than that of her mistress, and - by far more angular—nor had shea very ‘prepossessing face; high° cheek-bones, . a ‘nose which resembled a parrot’s beak, and gmall, peculiar eyes, with -but little expression ‘in them,save that but of lowest _cunning, were lot cal¢ulated to make a very agreeable impression on ‘any.beholder. - She was about thirty-five years of age, and unmarried—which latter fact was not at all to be wondered ati s -‘ " ‘She had never posséssed even an admirer, and thatagain was not surprising, except, of couraeg:‘ herself. : - Laura Hutchinson was not without one great passion, an inordinate love of money, an unbounded avarice, whose gratification) was to be purchased by the destruction of ‘more than one victim—jyes, there was to be ‘a terrible immolation to the golden ido] that Laura Hutchinson worshipped. But, after all, and bei wga.t she was,| still was I&mﬂﬂtehin]ﬁ%n son fully worthy of hermietrels. »v (cilfbael vait g ol . When this delectable waiting-maid had rushed so unceremoniously into the pres‘encé of ° Sir Jonas Rathborne, he had turned towards her full of rage and dignity, intending to’ annihilate the persumptuous woman with one’ indignant 160 k ; but sur.&Hw was all his eyes expressed as they ed:gt,lae,mselvesg on Laws H inson’s! face, so wild gﬁd‘s‘co;i'e(‘i' the aspe '*, Semtad. o T b CUTE N - Rosalie gazed too on this, wonidn, who sadbelioved,tha. thoovl whieh thaor -the pi & i d forboded, wai now abot ﬁ o Y ety aot Tes cruelly were Rosalio’s forebodings about to baßainidled. . el R < % For heaven’s; salke, Laura,” she edid thin | tervible must have habuened. thes

| ot Should be so pale and terroistrickes P |~ “There has been a shocking duel,” stam\mered Laura; “yonder—last night—there ”* - and she hurriedly pointed the way it lay, | “ there, in the dell 1”. Rosalie was listening’ aghast, without | the power to move or stir. Lk | _“A duel! with whom ?”’ anxiously ex- | elaimed Augusta, for she, too, was thinking |{now of Arthur. . ‘ G The Baronet continued an amazed lis-. | tener, speaking not a word. L “I have just been told the dreadful news, |by Mr. Albert Marsden’s own mamn, continued the Wa.itingsma.id,ﬁ’ * growing more collected, and speaking of Marsden’s valet in the language of the sérvant’s hall, “ and —and, Mr. Albert Marsden !’ Laura Hutchinson proceeded. “Oh, dear oh, dear,—he was killed—killed stone dead in a moment !’ ““ Albert Marsden dead !’ cried Mistress Camelford, and she thought instantly of how he had been discarded for Gresham’s sake, and | divineg that by the artist’s hand had Marsden fallen. s : Rosalie, too, felt certain that her hus'band’s ;would be the mame which next would be' pronounced as that of the slain {man’s antagonist, and Arthur was not he too dead ! o C o | Albert Marsden had not been the only | victim, Rosalie believed ; ‘it could be only | because her husband’s life was menaced, that those pistol sounds had brought ~such: terror to his young wife’s heart. - e “And Mr. Albert Marsden was such'a very agreeable young man,” whined Laura. Hutchinson, : “such a liberal young gentleman !” : e This was said with a mixture of admiration and regret; admiration, as’ she remembered the money he had bestowed upon her, and regret thatno more was to be received from the same quarter. | “And with whom was. it that Albert | Marsden fought ?” Augusta eagerly asked, though feeling certain of the name that would be utteredin reply. w 7 ° . .-t Rosalie, too, was equally certain’of the name which next would be pronouned, and that, for her, the worst had not yet been told, and strove to'gather courage fo hear that worst and live. ' : .“Nobody seems to knows what the duel was about !” the -waiting-maid -said; now again perfectly calm and collected, and as if she had not heard the question last addressed to her. . Mistress Augusta Camelford repeated her last question impatiently, and with a look and manner which causedher waiting-maid to shiver. = - it ““With whom was it that ‘Albert Marsden fought?” . Seke S “Oh, yes, to be sure, I beg your pardon,” said Ldura, now again stammering as at first, but this time from a different cauge. “It—it—l am sorry to'be obliged to' tell it,” the waiting-maid being as we have already said, somewhat in her mistress’s confidence, it is no wonder that she hesitatedin her reply—however. “It was with Mr. Ar--thur Gresham that poor Mr. Marsden fought,” Laura was compelled to say. . “ My, Gresham was not hiirt ?’ Augusta anxiously asked, and with still ‘more terrible anxiety did Rosalie await the reply. ~ “I am sorry to say, madam,” stammered Laura Hutchinson, ““That Mr. ‘LMa,rsden’s own man, as was, till his master was killed: last night——" . ' ‘What prolonged agony this woman was causing Rosalie to endure; how slowly came the answer, which, after all, for this 'poor young wife, would come too soon. = “Yes, ma’am,”’' was now desperatel blurted out by Augusta’s wa.iting-inaicf: “yes, ma’am, I have been assured that Mr." Arthur Gresham, though living still, is mortally wounded, and the doctors gives no hopes of his recovery.” i - The Baronet was greatly shocked. Mist tress Augusta Camelford clutched ‘with a! convulsive grasp the arm of her waitingmaid; while her coldly bright grey eyes grew dim with the ‘heart’s despair which they reflected, and her face, in a :moment became wrinkled and haggard, as thoughshe were an aged woman, and hadsuffered - through all her life.» - Y | ~ Of Augusta’s heart but one corner had been vulnerable, and there had she . been stricken now, there had yet a heavier blow to fall. .- S, , ey : And Rosalie—what of her? Did she speak-no word, not even when hearing that her husband of but a few months, was. about to die >—did she utter no despairing cry P—no groan of agony ? - i ‘ No! -Rosalie, silently and unobserved, tottered towards the door as if striving to quit the appartment, then stopped, incapable of proceeding further, passed one hand glowly across her brow, staggered ‘backwards a step or two—and then fell senseless at her father’s feet, . i 1 Sir Jonas and his niece gazed, first on Rosalie, as she lay without sense or motion iextended on the carpet, and. then at each |other ; with an amazement which was, for some moments, too deep for words. 1 So totally absorbed were both uncle and niece by the fearfnl suspicions which Rosa~ - lie had, by swooning at this particular time, caused them to eonceive, that they entirely forgot to offer, or even to suggest anymeans | for the restoration of the poor girl’s facul- } ties. - s e ° But Laura Hutchinson, without evidencing any kind of feeling for the sad plight in which she now saw Rosalie, withoiit even ]one wondering look—so well did she understand the duties which were expected, fgom a waiting-maid—proceeded in a cool, bgsie ness-like way, assisted by two se a.n.% of | the house, then in the room, to the recevery of the fainting girl; and presently &ncceeded in restoring her to a staté of sémi|consciousness, and to a partial’ understanding of what it was that had so stricken. her down. : gl Laura Hutchinson and the otheér servants were sent from the appartment,’ and then Sir Jonas Rathborneaddressing poor, shiverling Rosalie, said toher— (- | “Miserable girl! what is ‘this arbist—this Arthur Gresham to you, that'you should lsmon;whan. hearing of his danger 7 = And the reply came®in a tremulous whisper from between the young wife’s white and quivering lips—“He is more than all: the world to me—his life is.my life '}’ - If looks had the power to kill, Resalie would not have survived that which: Misit;ress Augusta Camelford now flashed upon er. g i) ¥ b £ - “He has dared to woo you, here, in your father’s mansion, in which; almost out 'of ' charity, he has been employed—and you, disobedient girl, have thought so _little of your name and lineage, that syou have suffered him to win your, ]ov?,?” o Sir Jonas questioned of ‘his daughter, . certain, in his own mind, that: nothing more, or worse, could have happened. But Augusta’s suspicions, went /further, now that they were, at last, ‘aroused, =~ “You have been his victim—have been betrayed by him?” Augusta said, in a harsh, questioning tone, asif she doubted . not the answer she must redéve.s." “No, no,” faltered" Rosahie; snd would have upbraided her omm}geven a.y that terrible moment, that she’, m.gthmk 80 wickedly of both Arthur'and her, but was without power to utter th m ing words. ‘ForS{mrlx{w,w*g,h laimed the baronet, looking sternly on‘his niece., . | A cruel mﬁeﬁéﬂt sne ]wmta’i only reply to her uncle’s répronch. . - ; “Whatier be live or di¢;’+=and Sir Jonas addressed his daughter as if it required only that he should command to:be at once obeyed,-““y%iﬁom this moment for_g‘et;tha?ttl,;g”,._ n, Arthur® Gresham, has “T cannot, father, Forgive'me!” Rogalie nes, s o implore et fathar's pardon - onboth | 96 (xnois bafars bifh. |, TOhL W’ﬁ ﬁbéygﬂ. -1 cannot ; for he “heis my | fﬂ“‘ih Rt r!\ o | This confession was uttered in the very faintest Thisness bubs thunderbolt s, iﬁgiqu ould not have more_ashaped thet, - g ' i&f *ﬁ"’*% howeted by mand and | | conflitting bl ottt whidh hisSbas, Whak thind whi I 1 anits ik o ‘»‘é'-’“ "3“ “L'E.'?:‘.“' ’;i:.(.;_‘-::':":; P NEVER L BRI %5._“,:_ e

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- But it was not thus with Mistress Augus- - ta Camelford. She strode, for some moments, round and about the room, glaring and foaming, and with low gmnﬁ)]ﬁxgt. like to somé newly-caged wild beast vainly striving to break its bounds, and panting for the jungle from which it has so recently been tom. /0 or g

- Presently she A;stepged ‘before- Rosalie, and looked savagely down upon the still kneeling girl, over' whom she towered like a gigantic fury. In her writhings and strugglings * with herself, Augusta had wrenched her hair free of the :bonds which had confined -it, and, scattered and dishevelled, it ' made ' more terrifyi still the dreadful aspect before yv}iiciuslﬁéosa.lie shuddered and was appalled. . - ' Thus, for some moments;. did Mistress Augusta Camelford stand and contemplate the poor girl at her feet; then, suddenly, and as if obeying the ' npulse of & fury shewas powerless to cont ', the: cajoled widow carried’ her convulsively-clenched hands high above her head, as'if to gain weight and strength for the blow that should descend and crush the life from out of Rosalie, there and then. = . dv s

~ Sir Jonas Rathborne, his eyes closed, his head bowed upon his breast, had been un~ conscious of Augusta’s strange proceeding,: Rosalie saw how she was menaced—sawthat a paroxysm of madness has possessed | her cousin—and strove 'to rise L%rom' her nees, but. could not. She had strength, however; to utter a faint scream, and 'feeBly togayh ol R s . “Spare me, cousin, spare me ! I am about to become a mother!” and then, with alow moan, sank gently forward, kneeling as she had been, into a° second and a_heavier ‘swoon. s 5 - “About to become a mother!” . - Every one of those words were like poisoned arrows to the heart and brain of Mistress ‘Augusta Camelford: - == e "“About to become a mother!? . .~

Should Mistress Augusta Camelford spare her cousin for that{ff;- e / ~ No! ahundred timesno!, That fact but added to the widow’s terfible hatred—did ‘but increase her thirst for vengeance. That, in her raging madness, she had then beén driven to kill Rosalie, is not impossible ; but the words whicHhis danghter had last spoken had been heard by Sir Jonas Rathborne, and so pathetfc were they in their pleading, that he was ‘aroused by them from the stupor which had been creeping on him;and ’tis to do him only justice to confess there was a pitying moisture in the eyes that now looked upon his child as again she senselessly and so helplessly lay before’him. - e ST eA e e

The baronet sharply rang the bell. Mote than one servant flew tc answer it—for Rosalie’s present unhappy plight had soon be-. come known throughout the entire mansion, whereof every domestic, at. least, dearly loved the poor younggirl. » . “Cdrry her to her.chamber,” Sir®onas said, pointing to the still prostrate Rosalie as he addressed the servants who had answered to - his summons. “It is my command that every necessary care be bestowed upon-her.? - e . .“Hasten, one of you, for the nearest’doctor—another for the family physician I’”Sj Jonas furthur commanded, as the weepin servants ‘tenderly bore Rosalie -from’ th TOOI S sz e o i i o ! e

¢ And then, replying to the look of—indig: nant scorn which he now beheld on Augusta’s face, the baronet said:. = . b

- “Yes; I—l know ! She is a wicked girl—a very wicked girl’; but we must not let-her die—we must not let her die I . : And then he, too, wept; and covering his face with his handkerchief, went'away, fes,-v--ing Mistress Augusta Camelford alone in the apartment—aloné to struggle with the shame, and rage, and hatred that now were goading and torturing her to frenzy, She turned from that mirror to curse—‘horribly to eurse Arthur Gresham' and his poor young. wife. . Was Arthur’s wound mortal, as had been said? £ ;

' Mistress Camelford hoped not; she wished that he should now survive to be her prey. “Let him live—let hii. live, now!” she exclaimed ; her body writhing, her face hideous to behold; -and I will think, and . contrive tortures for him which shall be worse than fifty deaths by pistol bullet. He must not die now—he must not I’ . And as thus she rayed, the door of the apartment gently opened, and: Arthur Gresham himself appeared. « ko : SR . With a loud yell, and like a wild eat, Augusta sprang towards . him, and thrusting her fearfully ' distorted face so close to Gresham’s »tgnt he felt her hot breath on hig chéek, she shrieked out: Dttt “Welcome, thou treacherous and dastardly villian—welcome 122" ' o o “And Arthur shrank swayfrom her, amazed and affrighted. e e e

‘ U CHAPTRR ¥a o 5 70 . .0 ... ILLUSIVE HAPPINESS. S . The report that Arthur Gresham had been mortally wounded' in the duel which had - been so perseveringly forced upon him was - —as from the first, will have been easily surmised — but ' the' usual ‘exaggeration which attends évery, even the most trifling ‘circumstance which is’made to travel round and about. L Bl o) Arthur Gresham, while listening to the ‘dying man his hand ‘had prostrated, had been: oblivious of: the fact that his own wound. was flowing freely, but he was soon to be unpleasantly reminded of that circumstance by a faint, sickly feeling, which - was fast overpowering his senses. = /- . Medical aid was at once sought for him. That Albert Marsden had fallen became al-. most instantly’ and generally known, and Arthur’s wound was magnified, a 8 we have -already heard. vt e © There was something important, which. Albert Marsden and his friends, when pro--voking 'a. deadly encounter, had forgotten; and that something important was the se‘verity of the laws then in existence against duelling in any shape or form. .' ' - - Along imprisonment, sometities a lengths ened banishment; were the penalties rigidly _inflicted on all’ eonvicted of ha.;rxi:ﬁ taken. ‘ga.‘rt.in‘a.n,qfaif of honor from which death | ad resulted. - S o ' This unpleasant truth spra:ﬁ almost simultaneously to the mind of those men _who stood around Albert Marsden, as he lay expiring in the full flood of*moonlight that - poured into the del. - e ' “And when Arthur Gresham had realized the peril into which he had been go reck~ lesaly coerced, again he thought of Clarence Hartley, and groaned that his friend atill ~Clarence Hartley had aﬁowerful influence, - and would have used it all on Arthur’s be‘half—the artist felt assured' of thai-hdf now, what was Arthurtodo? ol 0 .- And ggain heasked himself, What wonld _become'of Rosalie?. .~ .o . “'There would be no delay in' seeking out “and arresting all who had in any way dided in that duel; .of that noone entertaineda doubt, and so‘all who had been concerned: in it fled instantly, and were gone and scatfore it had been possible that: warrants, could be issued for their capture. X, mavel vt Hind- S Senisukat of all, was memaced.. .k ain 0 * Pained and weakened by his wound, tor“tured in mind, he had now to resolve on tmughdiﬁculﬁas,befmmio?ﬂtgx b ficiently ' formidable, but which, now,” this. -deed seemed to have rendered almost insurmonntaßg TR T ", The fixed detormination o whiblh he, affpoviy 00l et o G confous the marviago of Rosalio and himsel. &m m “:x\ ’M ‘M";v ] "55“"’% ny %:‘ ’{§kss~#%hﬁﬁgé;: :’LN:‘»;W{«A Tt b e g fsv b A - comfort Tor her. tine: of briel, eldeh, nw," T et O ‘! a 2 Geonco ardlr, by whom

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il immuiity coulll be mwr : the consequences of “that wretchedtiuel. | If, contrary to his fears, Sir Jonas Sl borne should be mercifully indulgenf#iote -daughter,-who had been 8o disobedifistto him; generous to the man to whomiEds " sulting only her own heart, and nolf & “father’s will, she had chosen to give his - why, then, Arthur would have no .ngsk® fly, for the interest which Sir Jonas sSal borne possessed, would, no doubt, balesss - cient to screen his son-in-law from PRI ment for an act which he had done IRt most to avoid. , o e Sad : Pale and weak; his left arm suppos D a scarf, he arrived at the mansion, sfith' ¥ ceeding directly to the breakfast rot o countered only Mistress Augusta Cam ‘i Amazed and afirightéd, as we have: said, by Augusta’s wild and dishevelk : pearanee, and astounded by the word: which she had greeted him, Arthig B ‘difficulty found power of xeohtb SayE. ol _, “For Heaven’s sake! has somethiniuie rible occurred here during my absen@@esE “Arthur was, of ecourse, thinking jgf f young wife, and forgetting all else S terror for her, he next exclaimed: . FEREEs - “Where is Rosalie?* = Sy . “You dare to ask that of me, GECEN woman whom you have so. cowardlyft = ficed for that insipid doll!” cried Augs® = Then, agﬁ.bedvﬁnéling close:to ARE she continued, sayagely: ' " SER “How dared ﬁsw?{fm hose lethil me ? How daregdvytti to entrap me il Sl wering thoar & yar during Bl g and pined,no doubt, when her fond husbene was sot by her side, ands you left with'th wmy letters, did you not, that she might X merry &t my cost ?” and as she ssid his ghi clutched: Arthur’s wounded arm, and B%& ‘torted fromr-him a cry of paint =~ 7 ‘h¥ A horrid smile flitted across the widow!i. now distorted featuyres. O e “That is but. bodﬂy torture,” s\hef’-' “and yet you wince-Lwait, wait till I} wrung your soul with an agony like SRS beneath which you and' your darling Wil have wantonly, for your mére sporfsesi= mine to groan and writhe,” a;:sf - paced wildly about ‘the room, Pragens ‘again stopping before Gresham, =~ ‘SB with a (};—.‘ﬁeb, concentrated rage, whigh 2 fected him evéen moré unpleasantly ! - her wildest bursts of fury: = ieY\ s “Yes, my letters told you truth, TGI 15t you; -there is more sport for you an oo Eret‘ty Rosalie; but now, I hate you St hatred which both of you 'will ére IGEEEE" .~ terly rue to have evoked;. now, HEEES * that, as you before have made defilsi my love!” .« % : T g She paused, and horrible was tif pRe fixed.on Arthur. g ! ¥ have written no letter to yol . received none from you !” GreshanfS@e & the first opportunity which Augp .-;_.,,u:f_‘ afforded him to speak, now earnes e «Ah! I have-already terrified y§& i tress Camelford exclaimed, with savays ' ultation. ‘“And lam not surprised & you lack the courage: to avow adc." AR were the doings of a coward; Iqt‘lo ol . der that, sufficiently brave to sslay ‘i S you yet should need the daring to.comfss & woman, whose she est and dess, foelifigs you have cruelly outraged.”” 8 A):t%m- sought to assurehercof ~hidlim cénce of that with Which fife chargedielh but she would not listen t 6 him, and d#ENE ed his utmost efforts of voice with hepes / wild ravings. e «I will wait till you are more calm™ thur-contrived to make her .hear, “ags e then convince you I am not the dagieeis wreteh you now believe me.” " | . B - “Miserable hypocrite—begone ! i e gusta’s reply, “quit, al once, and f@EEEEE the ‘mansion t 6 which your presefd i 3 beéh a curse.” i S

“Not till T have seen and spoken wi gt wife, with : Rosalie !” Arthur said, criphg ically. “How you have ¢ome to theikng ledge which. you posseﬁgma.zes i gince you do kmow that Rosalie is myse you will know also that my authory et her, even here, in her father’s' mang L parainount ; let me go to her!” i : It was necessary that he should ag : of Mistress Camelford} for. that lad / placed " herself before the door, hes# extended, her fingers playing convulsi ‘and her eyes glaring like those of a Gig when about to spring upen its victing} “Wait for my defence ere you so. condemn | me,” remonstrated = Gre : “You will not listéen now, nor have & . the time to proye to' you my perfechismes cence of all with whici’ you charge ni “Culprits ever protest their inng yet are they made to dangle 'on the gallae tree; and such should bé your fate £l power to rule it so!” Mistress Can o exclaimed, with an incrédulous snediisetl " But Arthur, heeding not the interriies continued— - g C “Warrants have beeén issued to.arresl —for—for——" . ¢ ' { “You need not hesitate, it ‘is Al known here; even to your Rosalie, th : huve slain Albert Marsden;andff ? i self been wounded, mortally woulfg: ‘had heard, and still believes. f” e young wife,”” Auguste: said, withigles -compassion, and a terribly malicigpfs" lighted up her face, as she read ogiidess features how great the agony she Bghes to his heart. TN “Such tidings to reach her.mow, s = present state,” Arthur exclaimed, dil% ingly. ' “Oh, thé blow will kill her " . Again ‘Augusta smiled; and withSe more malicious satisfaction than bef¥ i ' “I entreat you stand aside, and | , pass to her.” proceeded’ Arthur. “EESF s but & moment.to remain ‘with her, . are in pursuit of me, and will certailiies TRe Hepe i et Vi U - «And they shall as certainly find 3 i myself, will well provide for. thab S tress Camelford cried, and now laugl most unfeminine, most unnatural lagles Mistress_Augusta Camelford: wollldl suffer Gresham to pass from ‘the rooliEs ' 'what was‘he to'do? . "If he could have brought his mings ot sort to force, it would have availed bl /#lé ‘now with the woman with WHIIES Whe to struggle ; woundedißgl - 'was, he would have been butfis a: CHESESS the clutches of the fury who now it in%gyes and foaming Tips confrontelli = md tas these two su;\o& thus, facelilé | , looking into each other's.cyoliss man with a half appealing, hald, gl ook, the woman with ‘a giize of DRI = .of the apartment suddenly opened, | Jonas: ﬁﬁiborne hurri&edf;gen?; S It was neither surprise hor indigie = ~which the baronet evinced as lie. sawy e ing there the man who, without coms % him; had chosen to become his son- Y i 3 B hk:xzw,‘séraé&ll tha}:u I»‘hgz;ilj_ g . your , but pray have pity on & : ‘and thenngmw?me atter a 4 g tell me :{) my wife, of Rbs:;gﬁ o ~most kneeling before the baronet. & ' There were tears in the eyes of SE = ‘Rathborne, a tremibling in his ‘¥ averting his face from : Axthur; he! i b Be, - o dodatonl . "You are a father, i_u:,,ﬁy.i /' ;mw‘:b my disobe »; ugh -the baro ONet Was pausing, valnky e - hvs stotamiad 0o he ha nier, § ; word“th,ng]iﬁt"i‘;ﬁmdhil‘ ips, 1§ : SBkt st il e he cast. himself. into a ¢ Sepisnd bt ont 0 before Rosalie’s father, whose hank \{_ DS, a 8 3 T ,m:i , ’ :v",‘i; 2 . Mistress Augusta: Camelford W e i Mﬁ@» - ony Dotk ANk ue it A e o e ‘Q{ '“;? OOE T A TTRY - POREESTaB Bty 0 - RIS ;QL AER TR SRR 5 ‘.; “5,f;;,:?., "v 4 o