iendless creature,
that such a love should be poured out upon him? Not in vain--not in
vain has he lived--hard and thankless should he be to think so--that
has such a treasure given him. What is ambition compared to that, but
selfish vanity? To be rich, to be famous? What do these profit a year
hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden
away under the ground, along with idle titles engraven on your coffin?
But only true love lives after you--follows your memory with secret
blessing--or precedes you, and intercedes for you. _Non omnis
moriar_--if dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost
and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays
for me.

FOOTNOTES:

[N] _From "The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the
Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. Written by himself."_

The late Lord Castlewood had been killed in a duel, and young Esmond,
who had lived in his house as a dependant (reputed to have been
illegitimately related to a former Viscount of Castlewood), devotedly
attending him at his death-bed, received from the dying man
confession and proof that he, the supposed obscure orphan, was the
true inheritor, and in justice ought to have been the possessor, of
the Castlewood titles and estates. But Esmond, for the love he had
borne his patron, and from devotion to Lady Castlewood, who had much
befriended him, immediately destroyed the proofs which were given him
of his honorable parentage, and ever afterwards kept his claim a
secret. After the duel, while Esmond was in prison, Lady Castlewood
visited him, and in the wildness of her grief for her murdered
husband, reproached her loyal kinsman for not having saved her lord's
life, or avenged his death. In the estrangement which these
reproaches occasioned, Esmond sought his fortune abroad in war; but
subsequently, desiring to learn of the welfare of his mistress and
her family, whose happiness he prized more than his own, he returned
to England, and went to Winchester, near which was Walcote, Lady
Castlewood's home. The family were attending service in the
cathedral, and there the reconciliation took place.--Esmond had
formerly been promised the living of Walcote, but the vacancy
occurring while the estrangement continued. Lady Castlewood had given
it to one Mr. Tusher.

LXIV. THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS.

(DECEMBER, 1697.)

WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN.--1813-1865.

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