ad departed, and, for the first time in months, Sir Noel could enjoy the company of his son with a feeling of restfuln

pomp and splendor of a great ovation, into which he had brought so much of kindly memory and generou

eeling was a delicate permeation of his whole being, natural to it as the blue blood that flowed in his veins, and as little thought of. Profound self-respect rendered encroachment on the reserve of another simply impo

that he could have desired in a daughter of his own. Her delicacy of bloom and beauty appealed to his ?sthetic taste. Her gayety and the spirituelle sadness into which it sometimes merged gave his home life a delightful variety. He could not think of her leaving "The Rest" without a

early years suffered, as few men ever had, by the uprooting of one great hope, he was peculiarly anxious that no such abiding calamity should fall on the only son and heir of his house, but he was not the less interested in the choice that son might make when the hour of decision came. With all his liberality of sentiment it had never entered the thoughts of the baronet

his one human being that man can feel for man. At first it had been enough of happiness that his son was there, honored, content-with an unclouded and brilliant future before him-but human wishes are limitless, and the stron

ibrary, where Sir Noel spent so much of his time, the conversation seem

day made the lands a richer inheritance for you and your children; but now I am onl

hat you would impose two burdens upon me at once-a va

nd answered with a fa

g man answere

rn before so great a trust should be given me. As for the h

t's face b

ll England it would be difficult to find a creatu

ed to connect the idea of this lady so broadly with his wishes. To

man, apparently unmindful of the words that had disturbed his father

tual," but the sensitive delicacy natural to the man c

ss are laid. I look upon it as a great misfortune when circumstances

, and a deep unconscious s

ed that Sir Noel had entered life a younger son, and that he had not left the army to take possession of his title and estates until after mid-age. He could

or himself certain rules of action," he said. "To say that any man will or will not marry

eeling than he usually exhibited. "The time for

young man, with a strange express

rson that h

e a flood of crimson rush over the young man's face, no