ver they are known; and the old men and women in the scattered
villages round about the Abbey House rejoice in the good old times that
have come again; just as hearty pleasure-loving England was glad when
the stern rule of the Protector and his crop-headed saints gave place
to the reign of the Merry King.

From afar there comes news of Captain Winstanley, who has married a
Jewish lady at Frankfort, only daughter and heiress of a well-known
money-lender. The bride is reported ugly and illiterate; but there is
no doubt as to her fortune. The Captain has bought a villa at Monaco--a
villa in the midst of orange-groves, the abandoned plaything of an
Austrian princess; and he has hired an apartment in one of the new
avenues, just outside the Arc de Triomphe, where, as his friends
anticipate, he will live in grand style, and receive the pleasantest
people in Paris. He, too, is happy after his kind, and has won the
twenty-thousand-pound prize in the lottery of life; but it is
altogether a different kind of happiness from the simple and unalloyed
delight of Rorie and Vixen, in their home among the beechen woods whose
foliage sheltered them when they were children.

THE END.

PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER.

Transcriber's note: Typographical errors silently corrected:

volume 3 chapter 1: =an instant's delay?= replaced by
=an instant's delay,=

chapter 1: =latest fashion?= replaced by =latest fashion.=

chapter 3: =like the Squires= replaced by =like the Squire's=

epilogue: =young and happy!= replaced by =young and happy!"=

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