better we can put up with the loneliness said with less zest some friends will come no doubt all this being laid down a travelled was called in � a man of many gifts and great experience � and on a fine morning away and pupil went a great reason urged against accompanying her youthful husband was that his attentions to her would naturally be such as to prevent his every hour of his time to learning and seeing � an argument of wise and regular days for were fixed and her exchanged their last kisses at the door and the chaise swept under the into the drive he wrote to her from le as soon as he reached that port which was not for seven days on account of adverse winds he wrote from and from paris described to her his sight of the king and court at and the wonderful marble work and in that palace wrote next from then after a comparatively long interval from his fearful adventures in crossing on and how he was overtaken with a terrific which had well nigh been the end of him and his and his guides then he wrote of italy and could see the development of her husband s mind reflected in his letters month by month and she much admired the of her father in suggesting this education for yet she sighed sometimes a group of noble � her husband being no longer in evidence to her in her choice of him � and timidly dreaded what might be in store for her by reason of this she went out very little for on the one or two occasions on which she had shown herself to former friends she noticed a distinct difference in their manner as though they should say ah my happy s wife you re caught s letters were as affectionate as ever even more affectionate after a while than hers were to him observed this growing coolness in herself and like a good and honest lady was and grieved since her only wish was to act faithfully and it troubled her so much that she prayed for a warmer heart and at last wrote to her husband to beg him now that he was in the land of art to send her his portrait ever so small that she might look at it all day and every day and never for a moment forget his features was nothing loth and replied that he would do more than she wished he had made friends with a in who was much interested in him and his history and he had this artist to make a bust of himself in marble which when finished he would send her what had wanted was something immediate but she expressed no objection to the delay and in his next communication told her that the of his own choice had decided to increase the bust to a full length statue so anxious was he to get a specimen of his skill introduced to the notice of the english aristocracy it was well and rapidly meanwhile s attention began to be occupied a group of noble at home with lodge the house that her father was preparing for her residence when her husband returned it was a small place on the plan of a large one � a cottage built in the form of a mansion having a central hall with a wooden gallery running round it and rooms no bigger than to follow this introduction it stood on a slope so solitary and surrounded by trees so dense that the birds who inhabited the boughs sang at strange hours as if they hardly could distinguish night from day during the progress of at this bower frequently visited it though so secluded by the dense growth it was near the high road and one day while looking over the fence she saw lord riding past he saluted her courteously yet with mechanical and did not halt went home and continued to pray that she might never cease to love her husband after that she and did not come out of doors again for a long time the year of education had extended to fourteen months and the house was in order for s return to take up his abode there with when instead of the accustomed letter for her came one to sir john in the handwriting of the said informing him of a terrible catastrophe that had occurred to them at mr and himself had attended the theatre one night during the of the preceding week to witness the italian comedy when owing to the carelessness of one of the candle the theatre had caught fire and been burnt to the ground few persons had lost their lives owing to the exertions of some of the audience in getting out the senseless a group of noble and among them all he who had risked his own life the most was mr in for the fifth time to save his fellow creatures some fiery beams had fallen upon him and he had been given up for lost he was however by the blessing of providence recovered with the life still in him though he was fearfully burnt and by almost a miracle he seemed likely to survive his constitution being sound he was of course unable to write but he was receiving the attention of several skilful further report would be made by the next mail or by private hand the said nothing in detail of poor s sufferings but as soon as the news was broken to she realized how intense they must have been and her immediate instinct was to rush to his side though on consideration the journey seemed impossible to her her health was by no means what it had been and to post across europe at that season of the year or to the bay of in 