ble care,' Lucy said. 'I see George
follows a-foot. We will go up the hill path, and be at home before you,
I'll warrant.' She ran gaily away to meet George; and as Mary was lifted
on the pillion by Humphrey, Ambrose taking his place by his mother, he
turned in the opposite direction, and, following Lucy and her husband, was
soon out of sight.

Mother and son rode slowly along the familiar path which leads into the
high road from Penshurst.

The glow of sunset was around them, and the crimson cloth mantle Mary wore
shone in the westering light. So they pass out of sight, and the shadows
gather over the landscape, and evening closes in. As a dream when one
awaketh is the history of the past, and the individual lives which stand
out in it are like phantoms which we strive, perhaps in vain, to quicken
into life once more, and clothe them with the vivid colours for which
imagination may lend its aid. Of the central figure of this story of the
spacious times of great Elizabeth, we may say--with the sister who loved
him with no common love--

'Ah, no! his spirit is not dead--nor can it die,
But lives for aye in blissful Paradise,
Where, like a new-born babe, it soft doth lie,
In bed of lilies--wrapped in tender wise,
And compassed all about with roses sweet,
And dainty violets from head to feet.'

THE END.

EDINBURGH

COLSTON AND COMPANY

PRINTERS

MRS MARSHALL'S HISTORICAL NOVELS.

* * * * *

IN THE SERVICE OF RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL.
With Illustrations. Fourth Thousand.

'This is another of those admirable historical romances in which
Mrs Marshall makes the past speak to the present.'--_Spectator._

WINIFREDE'S JOURNAL. A Story of Exeter and Norwich in the Days of
Bishop Hall.
With Illustrations. Fourth Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

'Captivating in style, graphic in effect, and high in tone.'--_Guardian._

WINCHESTER MEADS IN THE DAYS OF BISHOP KEN.
Sixth Thousand. With Eight Illustrations. Price 5s., cloth.

'Mrs Marshall has produced another of her pleasant stories
of old times.'--_Saturday Review._

UNDER SALISBURY SPIRE IN THE DAYS OF GEORGE HERBERT.
With Illustrations. Ninth Thousand. Price 5s., cloth.

'A charming study of life and character in the seventeenth
century.'--_Athenaeum._

ON THE BANKS OF THE OUSE. A Tale of the Times of Newton and Cowper.
With Illustrations. Fo