d I say it is by no means improbable that, educated in
such opinions, he should have deemed the prosecution of such a suit a
direct falsification of his professions. The world, however, changed.

"After the Revolution came the reaction of order. To the guillotine
succeeded the court-martial; then the Consulate, then the Empire. All
the external forms of society underwent a less change than did the very
nature of men themselves.

"Wearied of anarchy, they sought the repose of a despotism. With
monarchy, too, came back all the illusions of pomp and splendor, all
the tastes that wealth fosters and wealth alone confers. Carew, who
had never bewailed his condition when a 'sansculottes,' now saw himself
degraded in the midst of the new movement. He knew that he had been
born to fortune and high estate. He had heard of the vast domains of
his ancestry, from his cradle. He had got off by heart the names of
townlands and baronies that all belonged to his family; and though, at
the time he learned the lesson, the more stern teaching of democracy
instilled the maxim that 'all property was a wrong,' yet now another
impression had gained currency in the world, and he saw that even for
the purposes of public utility, and the benefit of society, a man was
powerless who was poor.

"Alas, however, for his prospects! every document, every letter, every
scrap of writing that could have authenticated his claim was gone.
Of the very nature of these papers he scarcely retains a recollection
himself; he only knows that Madame de Gabriac, whose name I have already
introduced to your notice, deemed them all-sufficient, if only backed by
one essential document,--the certificate of his father's marriage with
his mother. To obtain this had been the great object of her whole life.

"With a heroic devotion to the cause of her friend's orphan child, she
had travelled over Europe in every direction, and during times of the
greatest peril and disturbance. Accompanied by one trusty companion, Mr.
Raper, she had never wearied in her pursuit.

"Probably, if the occasion permitted, the story I could tell of her
efforts in this cause would surprise you not less than that of my client
himself. Enough that I say that she stooped to poverty and privation of
the very severest kind; she toiled, and labored, and suffered for years
long; and, when having exhausted every resource the Old World seemed
to offer to her search, she set out for the New! Since that s