dled them,--swindled
them according to law,--and consequently they have been able to set all
the police of the continent on her track. She had no sooner shown her
face back in Germany, than they were upon her. For a while she
escaped, rushing from one country to another, but at last she was
arrested on a platform in Oregon, and is soon about to stand her trial
in an English Court. As a good deal of sympathy has been expressed in
her favour, and as Mr. Philogunac Coelebs has taken upon himself the
expense of her defence, it is confidently hoped in many quarters that
no jury will convict her. In the meantime, Dr. Fleabody has, I am told,
married a store-keeper in New York, and has settled down into a good
mother of a family.
At Manor Cross during the greater portion of the year things go on very
much as they used. The Marchioness is still living, and interests
herself chiefly in the children of her daughter-in-law,--born, and to
be born. But the great days of her life are those in which Popenjoy is
brought to her. The young scapegrace will never stay above five minutes
with his grandmother, but the old lady is sure that she is regarded by
him with a love passing the love of children. At Christmas time, and
for a week or two before, and a month or two afterwards, the house is
full of company and bright with unaccustomed lights. Lady Sarah puts on
her newest silk, and the Marchioness allows herself to be brought into
the drawing-room after dinner. But at the end of February the young
family flits to town, and then the Manor Cross is as Manor Cross so
long has been.
Mr. Price still hunts, and is as popular in the country as ever. He
often boasts that although he was married much after the Marquis, the
youngest of his three children is older than Lady Mary. But when he
does this at home, his ears are always boxed for him.
Of Mr. Groschut it is only necessary to say that he is still at Pugsty,
vexing the souls of his parishioners by Sabbatical denunciations.
THE END.
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