iest and a very
handsome middle-aged lady. Two young sisters were wandering about the
garden with their arms round each other's waists; a young man stood at
the ornamental fountain, talking playfully to the hawk upon his wrist;
while on the grass at the lady's feet sat two pretty children, their
laps full of flowers. A conversation which had been running was
evidently coming to a conclusion.

"Then you think, Father, that it is never lawful, under any
circumstances, to do evil that good may come?"

"God can bring good out of evil, my Beatrice. But it is one of His
prerogatives."

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Note 1. _Rot. Exit., Past_., 41 Henry Third.

APPENDIX.

Historical Appendix.

FAMILY OF DE BURGH.

Hubert De Burgh, whose ancestry is unknown with certainty (though some
genealogists attempt to derive him from Herlouin de Conteville, and his
wife Arlette, mother of William the Conqueror), was probably _born_
about 1168-70, and created Justiciary of England, June 15, 1214. He was
also Lord Chancellor and Lord Chamberlain, with abundance of smaller
offices. He was created Earl of Kent, February 11, 1227. After all the
strange vicissitudes through which he had passed, it seems almost
surprising that he was allowed to die in his bed, at Banstead, May [4?],
1243, aged about 74, and surviving his daughter just two years.
[Character historical.] He married--

A. Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert de Arsic or Arsike: dates
unknown. (Hubert had previously been contracted, April 28, 1200, to
Joan, daughter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon; but the marriage did
not take place.)

B. Beatrice, daughter and sole heir of William de Warenne of Wirmgay,
and widow of Dodo Bardolf: apparently _married_ after 1209, and _died_
in or about 1214.

C. Isabel, youngest daughter and co-heir of William Earl of Gloucester,
made Countess of Gloucester by King John, to the prejudice of her two
elder sisters: affianced by her father to John, Count of Mortaigne
[afterwards King John], at Windsor, September 28, 1176; married to him
at Salisbury, August 29, 1189: divorced on her husband's accession,
1200, on pretext of being within the prohibited degrees. She married
(2) Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, to whom she was sold by the
husband who had repudiated her, for the sum of twenty thousand marks, in
1213. In the wars of the Barons, she threw all her influe