consumption had there engraved; but
when she turned towards him her fond eyes (those deep wells of love,
in which truth lay hid, and which neither languor nor disease could
exhaust), the unnatural hardness of his heart melted away, and he would
rush from the house, to give vent to an agony against which fortitude
and manhood were in vain.

There was no hope for their distress. His wife had, unknown to Glendower
(for she dreaded his pride), written several times to a relation, who,
though distant, was still the nearest in blood which fate had spared
her, but ineffectually; the scions of a large and illegitimate family,
which surrounded him, utterly prevented the success, and generally
interrupted the application, of any claimant on his riches but
themselves. Glendower, whose temper had ever kept him aloof from all but
the commonest acquaintances, knew no human being to apply to. Utterly
unable to avail himself of the mine which his knowledge and talents
should have proved; sick, and despondent at heart, and debarred by the
loftiness of honour, or rather principle that nothing could quell, from
any unlawful means of earning bread, which to most minds would have been
rendered excusable by the urgency of nature,--Glendower marked the days
drag on in dull and protracted despair, and envied every corpse that he
saw borne to the asylum in which all earth's hopes seemed centred and
confined.

CHAPTER LVIII.

For ours was not like earthly love.
And must this parting be our very last?
No! I shall love thee still when death itself is past.
......
Hush'd were his Gertrude's lips! but still their bland
And beautiful expression seem'd to melt
With love that could not die! and still his hand
She presses to the heart, no more that felt.
Ah, heart! where once each fond affection dwelt.
CAMPBELL.

"I wonder," said Mr. Brown to himself, as he spurred his shaggy pony
to a speed very unusual to the steady habits of either party, "I wonder
where I shall find him. I would not for the late Lady Waddilove's best
diamond cross have any body forestall me in the news. To think of my
young master dying so soon after my last visit, or rather my last visit
but one; and to think of the old gentleman taking on so, and raving
about his injustice to the rightful possessor, and saying that he
is justly punished, and asking me so eagerly if I could discover the
retreat of the late squire, and believi