led when she came near his bedside; and she
turned away to conceal the tears she could not repress. She loved her
grand-parents, and she loved the young lord, and she could not get the
two loves to dwell together peaceably in her mind--a common difficulty
with our weak, easily divided, hardly united natures--frangible,
friable, readily distorted! It needs no less than God himself, not only
to unite us to one another, but to make a whole of the ill-fitting,
roughly disjointed portions of our individual beings. Tearfully but
diligently she set about her duties; and not only the heart, but the
limbs and joints of her grandmother were relieved by her presence;
while doubtless she herself found some refuge from anxious thought in
the service she rendered. What she saw as her probable future, I cannot
say; one hour her confidence in her lover's faithfulness would be
complete, the next it would be dashed with huge blots of uncertainty;
but her grandmother rejoiced over her as out of harm's way.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

LORD FORGUE AND LADY ARCTURA.

At the castle things fell into their old routine. Nothing had been
arranged between lord Forgue and Eppy, and he seemed content that it
should be so. Mrs. Brookes told him that she had gone home: he made
neither remark nor inquiry, manifesting no interest.

It would be well his father should not see it necessary to push things
farther! He did not want to turn out of the castle! Without means, what
was he to do? The marriage could not be to-day or to-morrow! and in the
meantime he could see Eppy, perhaps more easily than at the castle! He
would contrive! He was sorry he had hurt the old fellow, but he could
not help it! he would get in the way! Things would have been much worse
if he had not got first to his father! He would wait a bit, and see
what would turn up! For the tutor-fellow, he must not quarrel with him
downright! No good would come of that! In the end he would have his
way! and that in spite of them all!

But what he really wanted he did not know. He only knew, or imagined,
that he was over head and ears in love with the girl: what was to come
of it was all in the clouds. He had said he meant to marry her; but to
that statement he had been driven, more than he knew, by the desire to
escape the contempt of the tutor he scorned; and he rejoiced that he
had at least discomfited him. He knew that if he did marry Eppy, or any
one else of whom his father did not approve, h