ye but loves you shall behold you.
Oh! say you will be mine.

ISABELLE.

It would be vain:
Your father never would consent. A year
You've promised him to wait--and, ere that time
Is passed, you may forget the nameless girl.

HENRY BOLTON.

I will not wait a day. My word was passed
When I believed this home of yours was safe
Now--not a day. I go to ask my father.
If he refuses me, I leave his house.
I am of age to answer for myself.

ISABELLE (_calmly_).

Oh! not for me and mine must this be done:
You must not leave your home and friends for me.
Your future would be marred for ever, Henry
No! leave me to the care of Providence.

HENRY BOLTON.

Dear Isabelle, with you I have the world.
I'll hire two cottages together, love--
And we'll have one--your friends shall have the other.
The garden-plots shall join, and you and Alice
May have the flowers in partnership, as here.
The flower of love will bloom spontaneously
Beneath your smiles--and fortune's smiles I win
In winning yours. Come with me to your father,
The good and honest Olney. He will consent.
[_Exeunt into the house. Scene, closes._

SCENE II.--_The drawing-room at_ JUDGE BOLTON'S.

_Enter_ JUDGE BOLTON.

JUDGE.

The day of destiny for me has come!
Strange how the aspect of the outer world
Changes beneath the changes of the soul!
This morning is a glorious one to sense!
But Hope, the sun that lights the inner man,
And warms the mind to noble energy,
Giving the will its giant power to sweep
The clouds of doubt and dark distrust away,
Even as the risen sun the morning mists--
Hope comes not to my soul!
(_Enter_ REV. PAUL GODFREY.)
Ah! Godfrey, welcome!
You look as you had brought her in your heart,
This truant Hope, to render her to me.
I never felt the worth of friends till now.
My life has been one long unclouded day.
I had almost forgotten my dependence
On Him who sends the sunshine as the storm.

GODFREY.

A dangerous state. The Bible tells us, truly,
That "They who have no changes fear not God."
And fear is the beginning of our love,
And love brings trust, and trust true confidence--
Not in our own deserts, or powers, or wealth,
But confidence, if we pursue