heer
weak-heartedness. The happiness that others seek and find within the
circle of their own, I look for in the wider family of mankind, and I am
not disappointed.

Polly and Raper live with me. MacNaghten, too, inhabits the old room
that once was his. Poor fellow, in his extreme old age he loves every
spot that revives a memory of the past, and in his wanderings often
calls me "Walter."

It remains for me but to say that the singular events which ultimately
restored me to my own, attracted the attention of royalty. The various
details which came out upon the trial, with the evidence given by the
Countess of Gabriac and Raper,--all of which, involving so much already
known, I have spared the reader,--so far interested the King that he
expressed a desire to see me at Court.

I hastened, of course, to obey the command, and from the royal hand
received the honor of knighthood, his Majesty saying, "We should have
made you a baronet, only that it would have been of no use to you,
seeing that you are the last of the Carews of Castle Carew."

Yes, kind reader, and these, too, are our last words to you. Would that
anything in these memorials of a life may have served to lighten a weary
hour, or softened a moment of suffering; since to the higher purposes of
instruction or improvement they lay no claim. At all events, think of
me as one too deeply conscious of his own faults to hide or to extenuate
them, and too sincerely sensible of his good fortune not to strive to
extend its blessings to others.--Adieu!

THE END.

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