on him. For Mr. Hildyard, not contented with writing fully to Lord Winchester, had dropped an explanatory note to the earl, intimating his hop

hts of making her his wife, was a mistake. He was not so ready to give up the attractions of bachelorship. He had passed hi

t Mr. Hildyard's. A lawyer's daughter a fit mate for the heir to one of the most ancient earldoms! H

meet in public, was denied to Frances; and she who had never been chidden or crossed, who did not kno

quently passed letters from one to the other, and even contrived to bring about interviews between them. One unlucky evening, however, that Franc

was at the end of a passage, and Miss Hildyard advanced to it, and turned the handle of the door, and-she did not faint, but sank down upon a chair with a succession of groans so loud, that they might have been heard at any

should witness a young sister of hers, almost an infant it might be said, quietly suffering herself to be upon such dreadfully familiar terms with one of the other sex-and he no

ared little daunted. He raised his head proudly up, and placing Frances's h

gitation. She fell into hysterics, and screamed so loud, tha

ad been at a political meeting, but the next mornin

spent in fruitless discussion and recrimination

ot," she

Do you know that you are entwined round our hearts as never child was yet entwined? W

our woefully indulgent training. What response does Fra

o renounce all friendship with Viscount Winchester-that he shall be to yo

eek, and her voice and hands trem

never pr