blame she found fault with every absent tbey were all thoughtless or when do you write to colonel ma am i was an which sprung from the impatience of her mind to have something going on i wrote to him my love last week and rather expect to see than to hear from him again i earnestly pressed hia coming to and should not be surprised to see him walk in to day or to morrow or any day this was gaining something � something to look forward to colonel have her to he at i their it wa a himself now she hear more and she trembled i id ol il but it was not i his � if his were it she i she again be t the dot be ii � it moved down � s mr s to us will be calm � i bo of the others were likewise aware of the she saw her mother and colour � saw them look at herself and whisper a few � to each other she would have given the world to be able to and to make them it she no no slight would in b to him but she no and was obliged to leave � ll to their not a aloud they all waited in � for the of ir visitor his t� were heard along the gravel in a moment he was iu the and in another he was before them his as he tlie room too even for lis while with agitation and he looked as if fearful of his reception and conscious tliat be no kind one however as she trusted tn the wishes of that daughter by whom she then meant in the wm of ber heart to m guided in thing met him with a look of forced com gave him her hand and wished him joy he coloured and stammered out an unintelligible reply t bad moved with her mother s and when moment of action was over she wished that she had shaken bands with bim too but it was then too late and with a meaning to be open she sat down again and talked of the weather had ri treated ai much as possible out of sight to ber distress and el understanding part but not the whole of the case thought it incumbent on her to be dignified and therefore took a sent far from bim it h i when bad l to r in the i of the by mrs who felt obliged ic hope that he left very in a hurried manner he replied n the to exert though tlie al v lit replied with an air of from i ind ma da another pause of l er own � at my is in town i l taking np some � to for mrs she not look up mother both their eyes on liim lie i and some hesitation � perhaps you mean brother you mean � robert mrs robert waa repeated by and her mother in an accent of the utmost and though could not speak even eyes were fixed on him with the same impatient wonder he rose from his seat and walked a the window apparently from not knowing what to do took up a pair of that lay there and while both them and by cutting the latter to m he spoke said in a hurried � l you do not know you may not have heard that my brother is lately married to � to the miss his words were echoed with unspeakable astonishment by all but who sat with her head leaning over her work j n a state of agitation as made her hardly they w b married last week and now yes at sit it no longer she almost rf room and as soon as the was close l joy which at first thought would never who had till then looked any where rather than at her sa her hurry away and saw or even heard tion for immediately afterwards no no no of mn h penetrate and at last without saying word the room and walked out the others in the greatest astonishment and a change in bis situation so wonderful and a i � � perplexity they no means of own i i chapter however ns the of hit release might to the whole family tt i edward fr e and to what purpose that freedom be was easily pre by all � tor after the of one men without his mother s as he had already done for more than four years nothing less be of in the failure of that than the immediate of fi her his errand at tn in was a simple one it w� k only to ask to marry him and considering that he waa not altogether in a i it might ba strange that he should feel so uncomfortable in the present ease as he really did so much in need of encouragement and fresh air how soon he had walked himself into th� proper resolution however how an opportunity of it in what manner he bi d himself and how he waa need not be this only d b� mid � that when they all sat down to table at four o about three after he had secured bis lady engaged her mother s consent and was not only in uie profession of the lover but in the reality of reason and truth one of the happiest of men his situation indeed more than commonly joyful he had more than the ordinary triumph of accepted love lo swell his heart and raise hia he released without any h to himself from an which had long formed his misery from a woman be long to love and � d at once lo that security with another he must thought ist with despair as soon as he 