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SI was a good manager and a careful niotln and understood tlio tactics of society t<? nicety. Tlic Crawfords and tlie Macch fields, the Thorntons and the l'arkinso were utterly beaten, and their colors !o ered. Mr. Fitzgerald, of Ormsby Grot had proposed i and Mrs. Chesterton slu tears us she consented thai he shou - marry her dowetless Kvelinc to his t< thousand a year. "For you know, Mr. Fitzgerald? -y< must know hy your own love?that I a making a most painful sacrifice for n darling's happiness. If it were not th she lores ton so muc h?the fond, foolii child ! I do not think that I could pu with her. But she has fixed her win heart on you. What oau I do hut ma I the sacrifice of all that 1 hava left me tic on this earth to lore,"?(a retrospect! tmbfor General Chesterton, who depart! this life fifteen long years ng??)?" and e sure her happiness at the expense* of n own | No, M? Fitzgerald ! lain, not * 3t4titdi*iiiother. Take'her, since ypu lo her and she love* you, and tJod bless v< boil,!'* Mr*. Chesterton wept afresh. As si fobUd, Eveline entered the room. II round, dimpled, wuen che^t* were tin# e?l. She saw her mother, with the la jxickcl handkerchief to lo r facy, ami si rushed to her, throwing herself on hi knees beside the chair; mid,caressing h gently, glanced all the time, ns it' I stealth, at Mr. Fitzgerald : then, lowerii her eye* suddenly when she saw that li wei* fixed broad and wids upon her. "Poor, dear child!" said Mrs. Cheslf ton, snioo. hmg her hair, w?th a irlan and a gesture that demanded Mr. FiUg raid's admiration. It was very prut hair, glossy, bright and golden, and wa thy of the lime, labor and expense bestoi cd on it; for Eveline's hair cost her alino as much as her feat. " Ah, Mr. Fitzgerald !" continued t! mother, sighing, " w hat a treasure I a giving into your hands! May you valt it as you ought, and guard it as car fully as her mother has done." " What is the matter, mamma? Wh do you mean ?" demanded Miss Evtdii in an agitated voice. She raised her cy hrows and opened her large blue ey with a look of wonder that was perfect. " L>ear, innocent creature! She at le;i has never speculated on this inomen >Oh, Mr. Fitzgerald?Charles, if I inaycs you so," added the lady, with a sudd? expansiveness of manner, such as peop Iiave on lli? stage, when, ajtrojMM of not ing, they ssiw each other's hands an look at each other's facts sideways, **vrhi have you not escaj?eJ in those Crawfoi and Muccleatield girU; and what y have gained in my sweet Eveline ! 1) you think they would have been us inn< cent as this dear guileless child f" " Agues Craw ford is a very good girl Charles said, in a voice that was a Strang mixture of timidity and boldness " don't think she was either a Hirt or schemer." "Perhaps not," the lady replied ha tily ; " Agnes may be an exception to In family." 'Hut what does all this mean, man ma!" again inquired Eveline*; sesing a ? angry a|M>t beginning to huru on her lot er*s cceek, which she was half afrai might burn through the marriage cot tract. 41 It means, iny love," aimwered Mr Chesterton, calling up her broarl b'an mile in a momont, 44 that I have inte prated your wishes and spoken from yot Mart. I have promised your hand wIihi yon bare given your love, naughty child ! tapping list cheek?" to our dear Chart* Fitzgerald ?vour future husband, and m beloved son. 44 Char lea?Mr. Fitzgerald P* said Ev< line. 44 O, mamma tM she added, hi Jin her face. Charles waa intoxicated with joy; an* encouraged by a sign from Mrs. Cheetei ton, took the little hand which lay burie beneath the rimrlets no tired out on h? jjpl Aothtr'i Up. if* pressed It nervously? with a strong grMpt it must be confesses and awkwardly. *' "Obi bow lis burls ms?ths clutns man P rauttsrsd Eveline, disengaging tl? mangled member, as if from baslifulneai and plunging it among Iter mother's inter MP ijk UmSF . i (dentation ami a brum) red mark on her ' s l? tender little fingers, ami Mrs. Chesterton I i saw that she must have sutiered a great i deal. However, she gave Ikt an evpres- a j ?ive admonition with her knee, which said ] JO P'n'n'y? "l>on'tmind a little pain?it is v [). well bought." And Eveliue ahand<>nc<l L iy. her small fait hand again 10 Iter maladroit I' iE lorer, w ho squeezed it even more tinnier* I ciftilly while pouring forth a ilootl of love ii and happiness, ami childlike ?*ec*tii>?y in ? the bright promises of the fiitmo, that v matle Eveliue jawn behind her h tmlker- f chief, driving her at last to count verges e ier . , ' . ? (or on her fingers. t ' If this is love," she thought, ' love is a horrid bore. O, when will he have t done! How tired I am ! Slow I wish that Horace Crahani would come in. Thi-J v little man would he obliged to he quiet, s then, and go away." ii Charles all the time was in the seventh s heave i, believing lie had earned up li>s ii | fiancee with liini, staled on the same gol- I I den irarment ol love w'n I. l>t>..^ir v i... 0 -- ....../o lit* I did not suspect, lie understood nothing of L |,e 1 the cutiui of Hated iinibiliott, wliicb a li sr keener vision would havo read in every a a word ami gesture of the girl, ami tortured ii the heart which, he believed, he was cm ii rupturing by the passionate ha'ible of hie f; vv_ unanswered I- ve. ltwasvervlatebuf.no k m he gave the lirst threat of going away, si IM| and much later before be bad gained suf- e |,| Hcieut moral courage to foliii it. And fi ?n even then ho lingered till the girl was in w despair; tolling her in a veiv doleful voice w >? ?half sobbing himself?"Not to weep; a 1,1 ' he would conio very earlv to-morrow 1" . ,y Fvelnie did almost cry from weariness, w ;(l And, when Mrs. Cbenlcrluii saiJ, in drcs- it sh eing jjowii and curl-papers, with the air o ir, of a workman ut supper or a cabinet mill- (_ ,|c. ister after dinner, with the poctiliar sr.lis- tt k(. faction inspired by ro|?ore after labor?' 1 iw . g'v<? ??>? j'?y, my dear! Ten thousand g v? * y??r, -"d only a uiotber with a tuere ed i jointure, charged on tin- estate. And I have heard that old Mrs. Fitzgerald has is )V a beartilisvase." Kveltne's only an -wer "a was, "Ten t|)otisnad'a ytar dearly paid e< V4 for t<Ki, mamma. As you would .ay your-1 st )? self if you were going to be married to si I half an idiot!'' Then, tearful and pouting v ,o she went to bed to dream of waltzes ami a er poikas with Horace (Sralisiin, and to art ti L imaginary scenes of tempest ami storm o with Charles. k Charles Fitxgorald, good and amiable 1 a ur its lie was, .lid in truth ulm >st justify Kv- ] p or el i tie's harsh expression froin his excessive ,y , weakness of character and tenuity of in- d ,? telle, t. He was one of those credulous, a a* generous, kind-hearted lyings who are v the chartered dupes of the world. A f ir. man who lliougliL it a sin to helicre any b re kind of evil, no matter of whom or what; e. who denied the plainest evidence if con- s] tv demnalory, and who interpreted the most a ,r. potent fact ol guilt into so much coiiclu- " iV. sive proof of innocence; a man w ho could e< IS1 not receive truth, ami whodi?l not require h jit; but who was coniented to slumber s< , j away his days on optimist fallacies and o ' ?:i a:-:? - - ' - I,] i.niri |n>.-wllHIIVICa , U I'lllll WII.IIOlll a (C | nerre or muscle, woik, amiable, and wo- g e. niunly. llis tcin|K.>rainoiit was nervous; t< his habits shy ; his manners reserve.1. lie h m hail a dislike thai was almost abhorrence ,i; lC for society, and a desire that was almost j ti A. a mania for solitude and a rural life of' tl ?, love. 1 a Mrs. Fitzgerald was at breakfast at h v Oriusby Green, when she received a letter p t! from her son, announcing his intended t? t|| marriage with Miss Chesterton, "the only si .|i child of a deceased General < >tHcer; a g lc ; Lady as remarkable for her Beauty as w b- j for her Virtue," he said, with a nervous <j | flourish among the capitals. The letter f( itt was written very affectionately and re- h n| ; spectfully ; hut gave not the most distant tl )n j hint of compliance with the mother's h >o views should they be opposed to the mar- it 0. ( riagc. Or, the contrary, the energetic tie- p termination expressed under different forms it * throughout three pages and a half, "of 01 >c making his adored Kveline his own at the ai 1 earliest possible opportunity," showed no In ;i present intention of referi-nc# to Mrs. Fit/.- di geruld iu any way. lie neither asked for ti advice nor waited her concurrence; but d< ;r in every lino that passionate doggednoss lii of a weak mind which admits no second w i- ! oninion and requires no aiding counsel, a! n Mr*. Fitzgerald's heart sank within her. til r- | She had heard of the Chesterton*, and hi d | drca led them. fo j. | However, as Charles had asked her to a the wedding, and as Kveline had enclosed ?. 1 u short note also?written on pink paj>er sa d with violet-colored ink?Mrs. Fitzgerald F r- | determined on seeing tlie bride herself he- ra ir fore she allowed presentiments to degen- ci a erate into prejudices. lil [w i M llut Charles is ho very, very weak !* w h idle thought, " I bare always dreaded hi# mIi y fulling into the snares of a family of Ache-. H merit; and few, none indeed, except tome m ?- rare nature like that of Agnes Crewfoid, tli g which coidd see and love his goodness in hi spite ot his mental defects, would mnrry ct I, him except for his money. liut?uc)i wo- V r- men," she further thought, with ajlflgli, m d " (In nrtt wriu with tinlat iulAn (tfiitr rtu . I.. ir per soentud with patchouli; sihd they do tli - not writ* such hand as this. in I, Mr*. Fitzgerald determined to go to p| London, wb?r* the Chesterton's lived in a ' Ik f pretty little eotUg* at Brompton, to judge si e for herself, by knowledge rather than by c? t, f*ar; anxious and willing to prove herself si - In the wrong, and hoping to be aelf-eon- [ rfi J ?? n^iii BIIU clIIITt lie was obliged to confess tliiit everythii 11 the house wan nrianged willi cousin nate taste, ami that Mrs. Chesterton w l well-bred woman, of the gay, world arty-giving kind; of the we'l-Hibng i {own and family lace cap kind ; of t and that delights in veils; ail I revels lotinccs, ami wears numerous ends oi' ri on floating in all directions; of a fas unable, talkative, ami clear-headed kin t very different variety of English gem voinaii to the grave ma.ioii who cat torn her country seat like some old eh; laine of romance, and who looked < he modern world with her deeply > rev eyes?grave with the wisdom of n tin?as it sage might watch a chili [Uine hcucath the trees. She was still villi Eveline's extreme beamy. Vet t hallow nature, vain, artificial, and link ug, was evident its wcl1. A dark slit-h 11read out before Iter w hen she saw st.n ng before her eves the fmnre wife of h teloved son. Long times of pain amid anointment were woven in with eve real 11 ami gesture of the girl. A sin i iglil, childish thing, vvith large blue ey> .ml long bright hair; a iigure perfect ?s proportions ami a complexitni dtz/.lii ii its waxen bloom ; a damsel with I ah til words, and with caressing ways. S new what the future nmst bring; si itw the wreck beating against the Irene runs sands, and watched tlx- preein eight <?t love and trust scattered to tl raves of despair. She knew that Kveli rotilil only l?riiiif anguish to her Ix>it ml s' e set herself to endeavor to avert Hut remonstrances were u>eless. Char! 'as I ?e witched, ami 11is mother's war igs only iritated hint. H>' asked li nldly, " what fault she fontxl with M dicsterton, that she should thusvudoav ? make Itiin forget his plighted Ix>ti< >r " A waul of stability of oil a rav lur," I ail Mrs. Fitzgerald. "How proved, niotlx-rI" " Too evident to rcipiiro any pro >f. proved by every word and look." " V^oii find it, perhaps, in hur beauty mlimiud Charles. "hues this evident i lability of character, which you ha sun al a glance in your first short inn iew, ho in hur eyes, because they are 1>I ud bright; or in her hair, beoMUM <t no and glossv ! Is it in her small Ituit r in her tiny feot I for I don't think y now her well enough yet to judge I iiything hut externals. You have u robeVl her niiixl very deeply." The young man's lone was hard ai rv. His inaiiuur deiiant, nud his vy ngry and iixoo. Mrs. Fitzgerald had n ur neurd such an accent tr?>ni her son h re. She was shocked and woundet ut her tears fell on desert sand. She applied herself to Eveline. SI ^oko of her son's virtues, but she spot Iso of his weakness; and asked the gi if she had weighed well the conseqiie ?s of her choice?it ?ho had reilcctcd < er life with a nervous and irritable ma Iv-will.'d and unable to accepi argume r persuasion ?*' Kveliuo tossed her he; nd said, it was " very isld, that Mrs. I'il urald, his mother, should ho the only o: apeak ill of dear Charles; that, iudet u whs Hut weaker tii ?n other people ; hi * for irritable, i?otl?in<jj coulil tore unliable than lie was to her. Si ought that if people only knew how lanugo him, ami eared to give way is little peculiarities?ami we all ha ccitliurilics?he would be ?|uite a Inn ) live with!" Shu also added, " th ic saw through the motive of Mrs. I'll raid's advice, which whs to get a ri fife for her son." The attempt was hopeless. 1 let we dly and knavery the sterling worth ai onesty of the mother fell dead, an I i tat she had done was simply to emhr crself with both her son and her dang r. Things went on without bar conse retty much as they would have done wi , and of all the party she was the on ue who suffered. The wedding-day eai midst smiles and laughter from all b er. Even Eveline merged Iter person staste for Charles in her gratified ami i n, and Mrs. Chesterton was more pse >-French, ami tlsxy than ever. Ev rto looked iimJeiiiably lovely. Thecbur as crowded with the Chesterton's frium ! saying ameng tfieuiselvea. " How lata fill she is!'' a few, such as Horace < 1 r am of the Gu?rda, adding, " ami what ol she is marrying;" or, " by Jove, wh life she will lead that mnfi t" After the liouevmoon?that proserib* iason oflegal hli?s?Mr. and Mr-*. Cliarl ilzgerald came hack to Loudon Sli idiant with smiles and happiness, at e iping from the tedium of her count 'a; where she had l?een l??ro<l to dent I hare the had yawned all day, and whe le had slept when alie wm notyawnin c saddened to think that his green Ian net he abandoned, his evening walks ie moonlight in the wood foregone, ar a young dream of quiet happiness e iniigod for the Mirntoil called pleaaur et, when in town, he found another plea e in the happiness of Eveline. For I ?d been obliged to Confute to him-< at she was often aad and melancho theconntry; and now it waa audi hsure to aee her dimpling amilea ar jar her merry laugh again. lie s? ie bad got tired of Ortasby Green, b uiae she was away from her motlierle wanted to aee her mother ; dear chili ie ha- never left her before; and it w .. angrii iiuu Miliurill iee|||)g III her, <: ii<r ami lie loved her all the more for it. i When tliey arrived home ? Alls (Jlies- ( ,is terlon's cottage answering that purpose s |V) lor t he present?the first persons they , eh ,net was Horace Graham, looking more, i handsome and impudent than t ur. lie .? itl had called in hy chance, lie said ; and, , 11,, hearing that "Mrs. Charles" was expected, ( ,1,. lie had stayed ju?t to shake hands with \ ,|. his old friend. Eveline thanked him very | I,., prettily, and then asked him t > spend the | ,K. evening with .them, so engagingly that | u Charles was fain to second the imitation, | 1>tl which he did with ail awkwaid attempt t at eordiality that did his powers of ?1 is- , iU. simulation do credit. JJul Horace accep- < I'j, ted the invitation in his otFdiandcd way, j L.p and tlie evening passed merrily enough ; | he singiug to Eveline's playing, and | (V_ Cliailes applauding in the mddl?; of hits, , ,w and saying, 'bill the next verse J" when I ? (| all was finished. | f rr A homo was bought in the Bvlgravia. 1 :s. It was furnished with extreme elegance, I t , v and did honor to the decorative taste of p Mrs. Chesterton, she having been extra ( .V( ordinarily active among the uplm|?icrcrs , in and decorators. Willi their new homo ( ?? began the young couple's now life.? i ., Charles boie his part in the whirlpool |ie most bravely; and, lor the first throe | In. months, was a.I that the most .! I,.; woman ol tlie world ouiilil reuuiro in llio \ ,)v most complaisant ol husbands. A strange n |,t. kind of peace rested between the married s ?y pair. Sjtiange, because unnatural?the t I,, binding together of two opposing natures ( il# ?the lurid stillness that glides on helore j ,.s a storm -a peace llial was not the peace , i,. ot' love, in?r of sympathy, nor ot respect; * that was tlie peace ot' indecision, the peace ( is, ol ignorance, the p lace of tear, and, worst s or of all, the peace of slavery. I i Mrs. Fitzgerald was in the country, c ,c? ! brooding mournfully over tlie angry si- , : ieiiee ol her son ; tor he had not yet lor- , given tier iulerteieiicc in his marriage.? s It 1-ut she would not understand it thus, and t j wroto often to hitn and Lo Eveline, srmve. i ?"*| kind, earnest letters j'.speakiiig fnueli to i ,j. her of her Son's uoik^uss and suscentihili- $ v,. ty of nuturcf amj feeling sure that K.ve- t >r , line wijp all that 'af fond mother could 1K. wish in the w ife of lies'son. At last Eve- < j, lino no longer road tlie Setters; shfe thro < J, lliem aside, cryifig, * " The tiresome old ; i ,n woman ! ufi if t uid not know every word Li [,v of tier sermon beforehand And saying ! Cl this before her liusb/iud two, from whom she did not care to hide her < pen contempt * )(| for his mother. Indeed, emboldened l>;? j his timid compliance with all her wishes, 1 f. and Ins weak approval of all her actions, t i,.. sliu cared to hide very little that was dis- i 1; sgreable; nd more than once startled ! .? with him exhibit*on?*of temper and of | ,0 coldness. Charles w as helled at lib wife's xl} md fference, ft cited at Horace (indium's i ir| coustanl presence, and at the undisguised ii. goo-1 understanding that existed between J ,i, him aud Eveline; fretted at Mrs. Cluster- . n; toil's contemptuous manner ot iuterfcrriug t ut m his household arrangements, and at j ,d her assertion of motherly rights superior i \yr hiiu opposed to his own, over his wife; | i,,j fretted at the constant round of di-sipa- 1 i :,| lion ill which they lived, an I at the | od breaking up of all his fairy cast!e> of bliss t be and iiHiet; fretted at this, and that, and < | |i? at everything, and in the fair way of fal- ( to ling seriously ill with some br .in or ner- ; 10 vous atlectiou. < ve " Vou will not g to the ball to night, t ol, Kvy lie said one day, in a timid, but : at qucroluos voice, flinging himself vvearilv i lz- on the sofa. They had been married a i c}, bout four months, aud were very unhappy * in secret; although nothing had been ji ,>ii said or dune openly. j t i,?I "Why not, Charles I" asked his wite, i nil coldly. I s 011 " 1 am too nervous, too ill and unstrung j h- w go ?iui you, no answered, " ami i | nt thought tliut perhaps you would May at ih home with me, ami rend. Will you, ' ily Evy ?" Ho took her hand?atili the ! iiw same timid manlier. ut "O dear me, no ! May at home! O ! ial no! Vow had better go to bod, if you >i- are ill," hvolinu said, leaving her hand ti- cold and dead in his. ''That will be much , e- wiser than sitting up here half the night 1 nh reading stupid poetry that only makes Is, oii'j yawn ni d go to sleep. I will tell Jiisu tine to give you anyt ing you want when a- i am away ; hut really yv>u had bcUop , a go to bed at once." At Charles lot her hand fall. " Who is going with you, then, as 1 cannot lie ?d said. c? Eveline walked away to the mirror, ' e, humming a tune and arranging her bou?s quel. "My mother?"she said. "And rv Horace Graham," she added, turning sudi ; deuly round, fixing her e>ea oil her linv re baud with a peculiar look. A Lok that g. defied Atispicioii, and was beforehand with j en upjixiiuii. jv uK'it initi conrjucreu, i?e- r in cause il wounded Chat lea, and made hiin i id humble and submissive, x- He rone Iroin the sofa slowly and passed j r e. into the library, thare to fret lilt* a sorow- ! i a- iug child; scarcely knowing what he t ie thought or what he ought to think ; feel- I < ?lf ing only that his happinesa was slipping c |y from his grasp, and that he was being i a left alono on a desolate shore without I id hope aud without lore. { id rhis was the fir t raising of the tnask? | i e- the first confessed declaration of indilfer- I ? erence?a declaration repeated anbse c I! cpicntly erery day and every hour. Eve- > is line was never at home. Morning and j s iveiiing alike saw her drowned in the world's great sea of pleasures; and with)ut this gaiety, she would ,;e, she would (ay. Charles giew il', and certainly exicssively strange and disagreeable in his ichaviom. l or hours together he would (it without speaking, his lips pressed a;ain>t each other, and his dull eyes lixed >u the ground. Then came tits of pas-ion which were like the throes of madness? its that tenilied Eveline, and made her ear for herself. To these a violent reaeion succeeded ; a period, generally very lief, of frantic gaiety and restless pleasire-sceking, binding h 1 in to her side with>tit release; and. under the appearance >f complaisance, giving her a gaoler and i spy. Often at such times, struck to the ! mart with something ho had seen, chilled >y something lie had heard, Fitzgerald would fall buck again into his mournful itupor, and drag out his weary life with .he listless, hopeie.vs cxpresion in his face, uul in his whole manner of a condemned -rimiiial The world began to talk. It talked, al- j hough gently, of Eveline's open tlillation villi Horace Guiliam ; gently, l?ecause it alked al>o of Charles Fitzgerald's jealousy itid strange irritability ; of his violence nnl his tearful temper. Un the other wind, it sjioke of his evident unhappiness, nil I <if l lie contempt showed on iiiiu by vile and his adopted family: it. darkly iduinbrated a lunacy commission on one lido, and 1 ?i letors' Commons on the other, t \t last the whisper grew so long and loud, hat it spread down to Ornishy ?J recti, and icnetrnted to Mrs. Fitzgerald. The echo j ?f this dread whisper had sounded long igo in her own heart; she had looked or its coming; and, when it found her, he started without an hour's delay for i .oudon ; and, not caring lor the cold re- j ipption she would probably meet with, I .he presented herself at once at the house >1 her son. Krcline was from home.? siie was riiling in the park with Horace, o try a horse he had that day bought for . -niio ib? MOraij , liiL'.ng ; u one of those dumb, dull sorrows that ire far more painful to witne.?s than h<fjuosl turbulent passion. lie looked up with his glazed ticry jyes as his mother entered, ar.d stared wildly, rising and retreating as if he did not know her, but trying with ail his might to recognize her. She came for- . .wild, speaking cheerily and kindly. ' Well, Charies, tny love. I have taken .oil by surprise !" she said. But lior voice "ailed ? bo was so wild and altered, lie <ept hisevck upon her for some time, and lien with a cry that came straight from 1 ,hc sad heart, almost brcakiug it, with iobs wild and fast, and toars which fell iko blighting lain, Fitzgerald exclaimed : Mother! mother! vou have come to see , ne die!" The line of ice was thawed the band ol roil was broken, the stilled heart cried , ul aloud, ami the love that had been briist back into the darkness came forth ' igain. lie was no longer alone, with lothing but iuditlercnce or enmity to bear litu company, lie had now his own >esi friend, the companion of his youth, lis friend and guide: he might count now in one heart at least, and believe that it o\ed hint. He poured out his grievances to lii-r. They were all very vague uid indefinite ; simply wounded feelings >r affections misunderstood ; no startling acts, no glaring wickedness, no patent tclioiis. But she understood and sympathised with his glittering*; impalpable is iliey were. She soothed and comfort;d him, calmed his irritated nerves and veaved bright dreams of hop? for the fu .UK-. 1'ii'iiiiis in which sue relieved milling herself,and which smote hcrconcienee as falsehoods when she told tliem. Next rooming she spoke to Kveline, in icr grave, bland, gracious manner, and i (are her serious c< uncil, sweetening her :ensuro v illi assurances of her tmst in tlie giddy wife's good intentions?" but then ; i'uu are young, my child, and youth is ' >ltcn) curiously heedless!" liu? Kvcline rave herself unnumbered airs, and was r?ry ill used, and said " that indeed she vasja better wife than inost girls would I tavu been to any one so cross and dissa- 1 jreable as Charles; and that Mrs. Fitzgerald had better speak to him abou' his omper than to her about hers." However Mrs. Fitzgerald's mere presmee was a comfort to her son; and he j gut cAlmcr and milder now that he could peak of liia sufferings, and that someone j arcd to soothe them away. At first Kve- ; ine being awed in spite of herself by Mrs. itzgerald, behaved with some small atenttou to appearances, so that the young lousebold sal in the sunshine again. I lor- | ice tiruham, too, happened logo away list at this uiement; consequently a eonunction of favorable stars soeinod to shed i ays of domestic happiness over the gaudy, neretficions household. it... n~-? ???- ? rni ? in uviwv vnuie uhck one i iiHrsoay j ifWuoon, and Eveline invited him to dintor. She pressed him to come, when, as , tsual he refused, for the child'sh pleasure >f being untroaKd. Charles had a norv>us attack when ha heard this, and then jhvo way to so terrible a fit of passion in Eveline's dressing room, that he allowed it last how obnoxious the young guardsnan was to him. Eveline now and then ooked at him with flashes of scorn and j on tempt which may he called deadly. V.t last turning from him with a spurning . ietion,she ssid, "Charles,if I had known you as 1 do now, not twice ten thousand son a year would have tempted me to marry , just you: you are not like a man. You are j woi worse than a child or a woman !" Then | 1 she went on arranging the most beautiful | bet! toilette her busy fancy could devise. I uwi Charles conquered himself at hist and j trici managed to appear at table with .'Ouie i moi show of calmness. Kvcliue was so ex- ! mot treinely gay that she became quite over- | legi powering. She armed hersell with all the ' lor graceful little coquetries she knew so well j life; how to employ, each in their right time left and place, and heightened them in re- ! wile venge fur her late enforced cessation front i fair all excitement while grudgingly going han through the dull task of pleasing a k sick husband and rich matron. Even bein Mrs. Fitzgerald, who had expected much kne war surprised at the open manner in which j gaii her flirtation with Craham went on; and ! ravi although believing it to l?e nothing more 1 pie real than the folly of a vain girl, yet she i "W could not deny its grave appearance, nor 1 sulli the compromise that it made of her son's roic honor. She determencd to speak to Eve- and line seriously, and to endeavor?by nrcru- wor incuts, if affection were of no use; l>v ati'.l threats if argument fell dead?to open her eyes to the true knowledge of herself i and her conduct, and force her to aban- ! ^ don a la ice that might end in a tragedy. ' ted, Eveline seemed to foresee this lecture; for spot nothing would induce her to meet Mrs. i ace, Fitzgerald's eyes. Sho shrank from her the words and drowned them in thick show- spot ers of banters to Horace ; in her behaviour , Mai to whom there was a kind of defiance | gloi and bravado, tliat betrayed as much tear tie; ot the future as iiiditfcraut* of the past. I wet in the evening they strolled out into i ids the little garden ; for they boasted a plot ! udn of blackened ground, dignified by that I coui sweet name of fruits and flowers?Eveline j the and Horace wandering away together, I est and Charles a d his mother returi ing cmj soon to the house. Speaking to his motli- ?iru: er of Eveline, a flash of his old tenderness Mil returned and with it his old hatred to be- gisl iicic iii e?u. .\neraii nveiine was young ' and giddy. She meant no harm and did Hie not know the full significance of what she ed : did. Slie was his wife too?she must be j roai gently dealt with, lie could not be.ir to stra to hear her condemned. When his moth er replied to him, he shrank nervously ad<] i'loin every subject which threatened to woi lead to a discussion on her conduct. Mrs. she Fitzgerald read his heart, and kept silent, i one lfut while he was thus careful, lie was nes haunted, restless, and tormented; and at hod last, unable to contain himself, he went aro into the garden, where the shadows had the deepened into darkness, w liking slowly iev< and silently towards the silent trees plant- '1 ed to hide the upper wall. Horace and I H:xr Eveline were tl ere seated an a bench to- 1 tcr g'-tln r. They were talking low, hut talk- bad ing love?and "dear Horace," and "be- ] bon lov Eveline," were often mingled with aPl* their taik. They sal 1 ke too silly cliil- ho dren, hand in hand. mas Charles stole back to the house and en thci tercd?a creature from whom life and Hot soul had departed. Eveline had seen i pi him, and he knew that she had seen him. Ivin i'liere was no more disguise ; and, as she > the said, "discovery had at least spared her I olic the necessity of deception."?She threw tion off the tliinsy veil she had hitherto worn in and boasted openly of her levc fo Iloraco; the still coupeling it with perfect innocence. dis< Which was true. For indeed she was too . in r shallow and too intrinsically selfish to I cup commit herself, even where she loved. [ poli After this discovery and the distressing : cul| scene between the husband and wife which and followed it, Eveline went out more than so >. ever, and was with Horace more than 1 ?>t < ever also; many pitying her for being guil married to a Jealous irritable fool, ami AJk lamenting that such a lovely young crea- , clu iuiv onvum ii4i*c uvuii ?u sacnnccu uv an pen ambitious mother, against hor own ox-i of a press inclinations; many more deploring I tin; in>r wayward, systematic neglect cf her oft husband. j do Charles Fitzgerald's eccentricities of spe< teinj4er?his l>urata of passion and of vio- ti<?n lence, mingled with his tits of silence and clui of gloom?became every day more ma k- the ed. Even his mother was no longer a nun soothing or a restraining influence ; hut fem capricious, violent, irritable and uncertain, " lie made hi* home a hades for others, as ties liis wife had made his life a torment to was liiin. At last his language became, oc- wri casionaiiy, so hitter and iufuriiued ; :.ud lies more than once his arm had been raised had to strike, and more than once his hand, son twisted in the meshes of her hair, had imp threatened her with death?that Eveline mot was justified in demanding a legal sepa- alle ration.?She was advised that the law the could not grant it, unless both parties ! hun consented; and Charles vehemently re- Krai fused. Hut what the law denied nature jurii gave. A thousand airy nothings of speech of t an+coiidiiet, each innocent apart, ail mad- wh< dening together, had worked on the bus- ! mm hands weak brain until they produced an a sc vi imwiiv>v*9 ??lliV?? a IC?> Urt V ^ '*'*11 of wifely tenderness niiglit liavo prevented, Coi The world only said that Eveline was he i right in saying that her husband should | l?e i l*j placed in restraint?poor, young, beau- i tho tiful thing, married to such a terrible per- had son ! Charles was placed in proper hands, em) The blow was strncK beneath the applaud- faitl ings of Eveline^* wide circle of admiring and acquaintances. She took refuge among The her crowd of simpering sympathisers, and , ind< was received with all honor and piety, I in I like some martyred saint. There werejalty * ' jflfcdk le, however, who made her feel the , meed of her had, selfish career, and ihl not notice her. Vt'ter a time Charles gradually grew ter, and lie anil his mother wandered ly to Brussels: but there his "ecceuities of temper' became more and 'e violent; so that at last even his her was forced to anil herself with il power to protect him from himself. ;it length he became mad?mad for ; load with a lingering madness, that no hope, and that gave 110 rest; wan, I, raving?haunted ever by a false face, that glided from his clasping ds, and denied his fevered lip. iveline's pensive air, and eves veiled catli their drooping lids (which she w to he extremely elfectivo i:i society), icd more sympathy than the madman's ngs and the madman's sorrows. Peootily shook their he?ds, ami said, hat that young creature must have ered in her married life?and how heallv she concealed it from the world !" "Let us he kind to the pretty little nan,lor her lot has heen a sad one, her anguish meekly home 1" MARSHAL NEY lost visitors to Paris hare been conducat some time or other to a retired ; in the garden of the Luxciubntg Palwhere a small cross seems to mark ? scene of some tragical event. At this t, in December, 1815, Michnl Ney, rshal of France, and owuer of many rious titles besides, was skot for high isoii, and 011 this spot, one day last k, a statute was publicly erected to memory, with every accompaniment of iiration and honor which a nation Id devise. An imperial decroo ordered erection of the monument. The highcivil and military authorities oi the lire assisted at the ceremony. The iv sent its formal representatives. The listers of State, the Presidents of the Leutive bodies, aud other high otticers of eminent, were assembled in person. i unveiling of the Statute was performunid the flourish of trumpets and the r of artillery, and when these demon>tious of honor had ceased, the Arclilop and Clergy of Paris appeared to I the blessing of the Church to the rk of the State. That the spectacle II Id have been heightened by the prcs? of the Marshal's own sons and witsed by a detachment of veterans who 1 served under the orders of the slain, circumstances, indeed, suggestive of rapidity with which opinions may he jlutionized and parties transformed, 'he particulars of this transaction it can dly he necessary to retrace. Ney, afthe lirst dethronement of Napoleon, I taken service under the restored llours, which service, when despatched inst Napoleon on his return from Elba, had forsaken for that of his aneicnt iter. When the victories of the allies, refore, had once more brought the irbons hack to Paris the Marshal was cached for high treason against tho g. In his defence it was urged that capitulation by virtue of which the s entered l\iri< contained a stipuhii to the effect, that individuals, when the capital, should continue to enjoy ir rights and liberties without being piieted or prosecuted ia any respect egard to the functions which they ocied, or iniglii have occupied,or to their t eal conduct or opinions." This exi.atioii was not pcrniittod to prevail, by a majority of the Chamber of Peers peat as to represent almost unanimity >pinion, the Marshal was adjudged lly of treason and sentenced to death, nit tho abstract tenability of this conion tlicre cannot be much dispute. A eral who,when commanding the troops i king, carries those troops over to that enemy, must needs commit an act reason, as treason is understood; not we think, upon tho whole, that the i d amnesty of tho Military Convcncould he held in strict justice to inlo such offences as that of Nev. That execution was a lamentable error <t now be admitted, but tho true deal of the accused lay elsewhere, lie who had fought five hundred bafcfor Franco,?not one against her,? i shot as a traitor !" In'these words, lion years ago by nil English sailor, the whole truth of the story. Ney I, indeed, committed treason, as treai-> legally defined, but the license and unity of a quarter of a century had 11tied the guilt, and services of imparled brilliancy should have outweighed crime. It Ney w as a traitor, so for a drcd days, had been every man in ace?not, indeed, so directly or ao in>usly as himself, but in the. roijl spirit he offence nevertheless. Even Peer* > sat in judgment upon the offender it have sworn to *od forgotten sllettl ore of the most sohgnu constitutional lis, and prifesseJflipBinnce to asnianf rcruinenis. i j? noi ccising lO treason, should ceniwykt Rtiy rate, to a capital crime when the sovereign aurilv is so constat).If changing. Noy 1 I seen his country a king-Join, and nu ;>ire over agaut. llo hud pledged his It to a king, but ho forgot his {dodge, adhered onco more to an emperor, i circumstances of his defection were, ?ed, flagrant; but, as things then went franco, they did not warrant tlio penof death. For twenty years nod wore J