Lord Bardolf mentioning to me,
that he looked like a dying man."

"Well I must say," said Lady St Julians rallying as it were from a fit
of abstraction, "that I am most curious to see Lady Marney."

The reader will infer from this conversation that Dandy Mick, in spite
of his stunning fall, and all dangers which awaited him on his recovery,
had contrived in spite of fire and flame, sabre and carbine, trampling
troopers and plundering mobs, to reach the Convent of Mowbray with the
box of papers. There he enquired for Sybil, in whose hands, and whose
hands alone he was enjoined to deposit them. She was still absent, but
faithful to his instructions, Mick would deliver his charge to none
other, and exhausted by the fatigues of the terrible day, he remained
in the court-yard of the Convent, lying down with the box for his pillow
until Sybil under the protection of Egremont herself returned. Then he
fulfilled his mission. Sybil was too agitated at the moment to perceive
all its import, but she delivered the box into the custody of Egremont,
who desiring Mick to follow him to his hotel bade farewell to Sybil,
who equally with himself, was then ignorant of the fatal encounter on
Mowbray Moor.

We must drop a veil over the anguish which its inevitable and speedy
revelation brought to the daughter of Gerard. Her love for her father
was one of those profound emotions which seemed to form a constituent
part of her existence. She remained for a long period in helpless woe,
soothed only by the sacred cares of Ursula. There was another mourner
in this season of sorrow who must not be forgotten; and that was Lady
Marney. All that tenderness and the most considerate thought could
devise to soften sorrow and reconcile her to a change of life which at
the first has in it something depressing were extended by Egremont to
Arabella. He supplied in an instant every arrangement which had been
neglected by his brother, but which could secure her convenience and
tend to her happiness. Between Marney Abbey where he insisted for the
present that Arabella should reside and Mowbray, Egremont passed his
life for many months, until by some management which we need not trace
or analyse, Lady Marney came over one day to the Convent at Mowbray and
carried back Sybil to Marney Abbey, never again to quit it until on
her bridal day, when the Earl and Countess of Marney departed for Italy
where they passed nearly a year, and from which they had just retur