kett had never spent a tenth of his income. In time
he might be taught to perceive in THE DAWN the one greatly beneficent
enterprise of his day. He might through his daughter's eyes, and the
growing success of the Journal. Benevolent and gallant old man, patriotic
as he was, and kind at heart, he might learn to see in THE DAWN a broader
channel of philanthropy and chivalry than any we have yet had a notion of
in England!--a school of popular education into the bargain.

Beauchamp reverted to the shining curl. It could not have been clearer to
vision if it had lain under his eyes.

Ay, that first wild life of his was dead. He had slain it. Now for the
second and sober life! Who can say? The Countess of Romfrey suggested
it:--Cecilia may have prompted him in his unknown heart to the sacrifice
of a lawless love, though he took it for simply barren iron duty.
Brooding on her, he began to fancy the victory over himself less and less
a lame one: for it waxed less and less difficult in his contemplation of
it. He was looking forward instead of back.

Who cut off the lock? Probably Cecilia herself; and thinking at the
moment that he would see it, perhaps beg for it. The lustrous little ring
of hair wound round his heart; smiled both on its emotions and its aims;
bound them in one.

But proportionately as he grew tender to Cecilia, his consideration for
Renee increased; that became a law to him: pity nourished it, and
glimpses of self-contempt, and something like worship of her
high-heartedness.

He wrote to the countess, forbidding her sharply and absolutely to
attempt a vindication of him by explanations to any persons whomsoever;
and stating that he would have no falsehoods told, he desired her to keep
to the original tale of the visit of the French family to her as guests
of the Countess of Romfrey. Contradictory indeed. Rosamund shook her head
over him. For a wilful character that is guilty of issuing contradictory
commands to friends who would be friends in spite of him, appears to be
expressly angling for the cynical spirit, so surely does it rise and snap
at such provocation. He was even more emphatic when they next met. He
would not listen to a remonstrance; and though, of course, her love of
him granted him the liberty to speak to her in what tone he pleased,
there were sensations proper to her new rank which his intemperateness
wounded and tempted to revolt when he vexed her with unreason. She had a
glimpse of th