e never yet
visited,' he said, 'my tribune; 'tis open to-night for the first time.'

Henrietta accepted his proffered arm. 'And how do you like the
princess?' he said, as they walked along. 'It is agreeable to live in a
country where your guests amuse themselves.'

At the end of the principal gallery, Henrietta perceived an open door
which admitted them into a small octagon chamber, of Ionic architecture.
The walls were not hung with pictures, and one work of art alone
solicited their attention. Elevated on a pedestal of porphyry,
surrounded by a rail of bronze arrows of the lightest workmanship, was
that statue of Diana which they had so much admired at Pisa. The cheek,
by an ancient process, the secret of which has been recently regained at
Rome, was tinted with a delicate glow.

'Do you approve of it?' said Lord Montfort to the admiring Henrietta.
'Ah, dearest Miss Temple,' he continued, 'it is my happiness that the
rose has also returned to a fairer cheek than this.'

CHAPTER V.

_Which Contains Some Rather Painful Explanations_.

THE reader will not perhaps be much surprised that the Marquis of
Montfort soon became the declared admirer of Miss Temple. He made the
important declaration after a very different fashion from the unhappy
Ferdinand Armine: he made it to the lady's father. Long persuaded that
Miss Temple's illness had its origin in the mind, and believing that in
that case the indisposition of the young lady had probably arisen, from
one cause or another, in the disappointment of her affections, Lord
Montfort resolved to spare her feelings, unprepared, the pain of a
personal appeal. The beauty, the talent, the engaging disposition, and
the languid melancholy of Miss Temple, had excited his admiration and
pity, and had finally won a heart capable of deep affections, but
gifted with great self-control. He did not conceal from Mr. Temple the
conviction that impelled him to the course which he had thought proper
to pursue, and this delicate conduct relieved Mr. Temple greatly from
the unavoidable embarrassment of his position. Mr. Temple contented
himself with communicating to Lord Montfort that his daughter had
indeed entered into an engagement with one who was not worthy of her
affections, and that the moment her father had been convinced of the
character of the individual, he had quitted England with his daughter.
He expressed his unqualified approbation of the overture of Lord
Montfort, t