ouples, too partial a statement had
been laid before the House; he was credibly informed that the parties
had separated immediately after the ceremony, and that the bride had
since been married, according to law, to a gentleman who possessed her
affections, and had lived with him ever since the said marriage.

On this another lawyer got up, and said that "if that was so, the
petition must be abandoned. Parliament was humane, and would protect an
illegal marriage per se, but not an illegal marriage competing with a
legal one, that would be to tamper with the law of England, and, indeed,
with morality; would compel a woman to adultery in her own despite."

This proved a knock-down blow; and the petition was dropped, as
respected Frederick Coventry and Grace Little.

Coventry's farm was returned to him, and the settlement canceled.

Little sent Ransome to him with certain memoranda, and warned him to
keep quiet, or he would be indicted for felony.

He groaned and submitted.

He lives still to expiate his crimes.

While I write these lines, there still stands at Poma Bridge one
disemboweled house, to mark that terrible flood: and even so, this human
survivor lives a wreck. "Below the waist an inert mass; above it, a
raging, impotent, despairing criminal." He often prays for death. Since
he can pray for any thing let us hope he will one day pray for penitence
and life everlasting.

Little built a house in the suburbs leading to Raby Hall. There is a
forge in the yard, in which the inventor perfects his inventions with
his own hand. He is a wealthy man, and will be wealthier for he lives
prudently and is never idle.

Mr. Carden lives with him. Little is too happy with Grace to bear malice
against her father.

Grace is lovelier than ever, and blissfully happy in the husband she
adores, and two lovely children.

Guy Raby no longer calls life one disappointment: he has a loving and
prudent wife, and loves her as she deserves; his olive branches are
rising fast around him; and as sometimes happens to a benedict of his
age, who has lived soberly, he looks younger, feels younger, talks
younger, behaves younger than he did ten years before he married. He is
quite unconscious that he has departed from his favorite theories, in
wedding a yeoman's daughter. On the contrary, he believes he has acted
on a system, and crossed the breed so judiciously as to attain greater
physical perfection by means of a herculean dam, yet