rth, to Lucerne, before the warm
weather came.

"Of course we will remain; why not?" said Sir Harry. "Mamma and I
like Lugano amazingly." Poor Sir Harry. As though he could have liked
any place except Humblethwaite!

Our story is over now. They did remain till the scorching July sun
had passed over their heads, and August was upon them; and then--they
had buried her in the small Protestant cemetery at Lugano, and Sir
Harry Hotspur was without a child and without an heir.

He returned home in the early autumn, a grey, worn-out, tottering old
man, with large eyes full of sorrow, and a thin mouth that was seldom
opened to utter a word. In these days, I think, he recurred to
his early sorrow, and thought almost more of his son than of his
daughter. But he had instant, pressing energy left to him for one
deed. Were he to die now without a further will, Humblethwaite and
Scarrowby would go to the wretch who had destroyed him. What was the
title to him now, or even the name? His wife's nephew was an Earl
with an enormous rent-roll, something so large that Humblethwaite and
Scarrowby to him would be little more than additional labour. But to
this young man Humblethwaite and Scarrowby were left, and the glories
of the House of Hotspur were at an end.

And so the story of the House of Humblethwaite has been told.

London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor Printers Bread Street Hill.

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Transcriber's note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Specific changes in wording of the text are listed below.

Chapter V, paragraph 1. The word "of" was deleted
from the sentence which in the original read:
It was of this taste OF which Pope was conscious
when he declared that every woman was at heart a rake.

Chapter VII, paragraph 17. The word "like" was added
to the sentence: A girl LIKE that learns everything.

Chapter VIII, paragraph 33. The spelling of the word
"commencment" was changed in the sentence beginning:
George had determined from the COMMENCEMENT of his
visit . . .

Chapter XX, paragraph 4. The word "uncle" was changed
to "cousin" in the sentence: "I am so sorry to give you
this trouble," said Cousin George, coming forward to
greet his COUSIN.

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