ave him in baptism the full name of his father. Beppo and
Madelena stood as his sponsors. They told me St. John would be his patron
saint.

"I rallied from my torpor. I built a roomy cottage in a mountain dell
near the chapel of Santa Maria, furnished it comfortably, and moved into
it, and engaged an Italian nurse and housekeeper, for I had resolved to
pass my life among the simple, kindly people who were the only friends
misfortune had left me.

"Another trial awaited me--a light one, however, in comparison to those
I had suffered and outlived.

"This trial came when my son was but little over a year old, and I had
been about six months in the "Hermitage," as I called my new home.

"One morning I received a file of English papers for the month of May
just preceding. In the papers of the first week in May I saw announced
the birth of your son, called the infant Marquis of Arondelle, and the
heir. I read of the great rejoicings in all your various seats throughout
the United Kingdom, and the congratulations of royalty itself, upon this
auspicious event. I clasped my disinherited son to my bosom and wept the
very bitterest tears I had ever shed in my life.

"Later on I read in the papers for the last of May a graphic account of
the grand pageantry of the christening, which took place at St. Peter's,
Euston Square, where an archbishop performed the sacred rites and a royal
duke stood sponsor, and of the great feastings and rejoicings in hall and
hut on every estate of yours throughout the kingdom. I thought of my
disowned boy's humble baptism in the village church by the country
priest, where two kind-hearted peasants stood sponsors for him, and I
wept myself nearly blind that night.

"The next day I went to the little church and told the good father there
all about it. He understood and sympathized with me, counselled and
comforted me as usual.

"He admonished me that to escape from the wounds of the world, I must not
only forsake the world, as I had done, but forget the world as I had not
done; to forget the world I must cease to search and inquire into its
sayings and doings; and he advised me to write and stop all my
newspapers, which only brought me news to disturb my peace of mind.

"I followed the direction of my wise guide. I wrote immediately and
stopped all my newspapers.

"After that I devoted myself to the nurture of my child, to the care
of my little household, to the relief of my poorer neighbors, a