upon it, unless yours is specially too: and think over your own misdeeds, James, instead of ever looking at mine." Constance and her child went laughing off together, and her husband heard her beautiful voice singing snatches of a song, as she went down the staircase. He still kept the trinket, and his eye fell mechanically upon the church, where the woman who had loved him best was buried. Forgive her! you who are wiser and stronger: if she had loved him too much, she had suffered yet more before she found her rest. He had grown great now-she had never from the moment when she had first seen him, doubted that he was to be so. Was he not great already, if the world could only see it? And she had crowned him with that halo of glory which a woman throws around the man whom she reverences. He shall rise; but she ignores all the recognised means by which he must make his way amongst his fellows, and immediately dreams for him a crown. Her certainty was to be realised: only she who had known it was not there to watch the man of genius. There is a wondrous equality here, if we did but know it. He had gained his desire, and she had lost hers and there was no great difference between them now. The sternest irony of fate may lie in the fulfilment of our wishes. As he stood there, worn and tired to the heart's core, his noble head bent down, and his eyes fixed upon the building, which he did not see, a stranger might have said, that, if any man could have afforded a justification for the great passion with which he had been worshipped, James Erskine did: and it is seldom that we can look coldly upon another and see there the excuse for such idolatry. We are all revenged some day; and she, if she had ever wished for revenge, had found hers now. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY ADAMS, F. O., F.R.G.S.-The History of Japan. From the Earliest Period to the Present time. New Edition, revised. 2 vols. With Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo, 215. each. ADAMSON, H. T., B.D.—The Truth as it is in Jesus. 8vo, 8s. 6d. The Three Sevens. Crown 8vo, 5s. 6d. Crown A. K. H. B.--From a Quiet Place. A New Volume of Sermons. Crown 8vo, 5s. ALBERT, Mary.-Holland and her Heroes to the year 1585. An Adaptation from "Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic. Small crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. ALLEN, Rev. R., M.A.-Abraham; his Life, Times, and Travels, 3,800 years ago. With Map. Second Edition. Post 8vo, 6s. ALLEN, Grant, B.A.-Physiological Esthetics. Large post 8vo, 9s. ALLIES, T. W., M.A.-Per Crucem ad Lucem. The Result of a Life. 2 vols. Demy 8vo, 25s. A Life's Decision. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. ANDERSON, R. C., C.E.-Tables for Facilitating the Calculation of Every Detail in connection with Earthen and Masonry Dams. Royal 8vo, £2 25. |