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 THE G A M B L E R'S WIFE.
 
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 ANTI-CONINGSBY; 
 
 THE NEW GENERATION GROWN OLD. 
 
 BY AN EMBRYO M. P. 
 
 " Who'll exchange old lamps for new."
 
 THE GAMBLER'S WIFE. 
 
 A NOVEL 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR OF 
 
 " The Young Prima Donna," " The Belle of thb 
 Family," " The Old Dower House," &c. 
 
 " A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 
 That hath a mint of phrases in his brain — 
 One, whom the music of his own vain tongue 
 Doth ravish — like enchanting harmony — 
 A man of compliments ." 
 
 Love's Labour Lost. 
 
 IN THREE VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 LONDON: 
 
 T. C. NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER St., CAVENDISH Sq. 
 1844.
 
 V, I 
 
 THE GAMBLER'S WIFE. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 " Were honor to be scanned by long descent, 
 From ancestors illustrious, I could vaunt 
 
 A lineage of the greatest ." 
 
 RowE. 
 
 Q It was on a lovely evening in the month of 
 August, that young Arthur Balfour, having 
 gladly forsaken the noise, glare, and confusion 
 
 ^ of a London season, entered the splendid do- 
 main of Sutherland Manor. His father and 
 
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 2 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 the present proprietor of this lovely spot, were 
 cousins.— Orphans from infancy, they had been 
 brought up as brothers, under the care of their 
 grandfather, who lavished the most tender af- 
 fection on the two boys, rendered still more 
 precious, from being the only scions of a 
 house, of which he was not a little proud, — 
 and certainly for antiquity and honor, it ranked 
 amons^st the first of the commoners in the land. 
 The two boys grew to manhood — and with 
 increased pride and delight, did the old man 
 regard the noble youths destined to perpetuate 
 his ancient name. 
 
 A severe blow which greatly wounded that 
 pride, was however soon inflicted by one of 
 them, for Arthur, the eldest — married ! — 
 
 And was it some low-born damsel who was 
 to contaminate the gentle blood of the Suther- 
 lands ? No — he wed the only daughter of a 
 Peer— but it was the idea, that a Sutherland 
 should submit to give up that name, which 
 caused the offended blood to rush into the old
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. d 
 
 man's face — the name for which heroes had 
 fought and bled ! — to take another in order to 
 induce a haughty Earl to stoop to give his 
 daughter to a commoner ! — He was thankful 
 he was not his heir, but the child of his 
 youngest son ; still there were but too few 
 Sutherlands remaining to afford to lose even 
 one — broad lands would also have been his — 
 but no mortal, not possessing the name of 
 Sutherland, should ever own a rood of the 
 estate. — 
 
 Five years after this event — Mark Suther- 
 land on whom the whole weight of the affection 
 of the grandfather had now fallen, increased it 
 tenfold by choosing a wife, who for virtue, 
 family and beauty, was worthy of the house she 
 had entered — moreover — whose parents were 
 not unmindful of the eligibility of her marriage. 
 Some years of this happy union passed ^away, 
 and the health of the elder Mr. Sutherland 
 gradually declined. Fain would he 'have seen 
 a son of his grandson, sporting in his Halls, 
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 4 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. 
 
 before he was '' gathered to his fathers ;" — but 
 two fair girls alone clung to his knee and gam- 
 bolled by his side—still they were Sutherlands, 
 and though many more great-grand children 
 might yet be born to him, he could even con- 
 template with satisfaction, the whole power and 
 dignity of his house, being on some future day 
 vested in the person of the lovely little Maud ; 
 for a female had before swayed its honors, 
 without diminution of its prosperity ; the heiress 
 being also privileged to retain her maiden 
 name, and to bestow it on the husband of her 
 choice — and when the young Arthur Balfour 
 was sent an orphan to Sutherland Manor, and 
 was received and cherished by his venerable 
 relative with the tenderest affection, the death 
 of his father having banished from the breast 
 of the kind old man every feeling of resent- 
 ment, still the noble boy, in no degree robbed 
 his baby lady cousins, of their rank in his con- 
 sideration, for Arthur was not a Sutherland ! 
 Mark however sometimes conceived the erro-
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. O 
 
 neou3 idea, that a feeling of regret lurked in 
 the heart of his grandfather, at the probability 
 of a female succeeding to his venerated estate. 
 His character was noble and disinterested, and 
 it was with sincerity, that he constantly sug- 
 gested the expediency of securing the inherit- 
 ance to his young cousin. 
 
 He would often say — " I already love Ar- 
 thur as my son, and to speak the truth, I have 
 ever had a strong prejudice in favour of the 
 Salic law." 
 
 The old man however would gently reprove 
 him for this sentiment, and always firmly op- 
 posed the proposition. 
 
 It was after an amicable argument upon this 
 subject, a few days previous to his leaving the 
 Manor for London, to try the aid of the best 
 medical advice, urged by the entreaties of 
 those around him — that having for some time 
 watched with a thoughtful smile, the gentle at- 
 tentions of Arthur to the little girls, as they
 
 6 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 gambolled before him, Mr. Sutherland sud- 
 denly exclaimed — 
 
 '' Kemember Mark ! Maud must be your 
 heiress, unless you have a son. Arthur is in- 
 deed a noble boy, and would be an ornament 
 to the name of which he was deprived by his 
 poor father's fault ; but such a fault was too 
 great to be overlooked in the manner you pro- 
 pose. No ! — if ever he resume the name of 
 Sutherland, let it be for the sake of becoming 
 the husband of little Maud. Ah ! pretty May'', 
 he exclaimed, " it is not of you I am speaking, 
 so you need not stroke his cheek, and look so 
 lovingly in his bright eyes. And you," he 
 added turning to the mother of the beauteous 
 girls, " will you, dearest Mary, promise to use 
 your influence with your daughter, in favor of 
 this young lover, and give me the hope, that 
 hereafter my wishes may be fulfilled." 
 
 '' If,^' Mrs. Sutherland smilingly replied, 
 fixing her large dark eyes with fond admiration 
 on the handsome boy, who was warmly defend-
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. / 
 
 ing his gentler companion, from the rather 
 overbearing authority of his intended wife^ " if 
 he change not greatly, I think much influence 
 on my part will scarcely be required. May 
 your wish be accomplished my dear Sir," she 
 continued, '' but I confess that I should ever 
 shrink from influencing the inclinations of my 
 children on the subject of marriage," and Mrs. 
 Sutherland looked at her husband, as if wish- 
 ing to hear him express his concurrence in her 
 sentiment. 
 
 " To tell you the truth," he observed smi- 
 ling, " I do not think there is much chance of 
 Miss Maud's ever allowing her will to be op- 
 posed by any one, more than she can possibly 
 avoid. See how she already lords it over 
 poor, gentle, little May, who on the contrary, 
 looks as if her will, would ever be that of those 
 she loves. I do not promise poor Arthur an 
 easy life, if he is to be under the dominion of 
 those bright eyes." 
 
 '* Ah, she will be a splendid creature !" re-
 
 8 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 plied the old man, " but do not spoil her. Far 
 be it from me, to wish that noble spirit, which 
 so well becomes a Sutherland, broken, or 
 severely curbed ; but those restless orbs, and 
 that fiery brow, already betoken a temper, 
 which will require much judicious management. 
 And remember, my dear Mary, that a meek 
 and gentle spirit, is the loveliest attribute of a 
 woman — of every age — of every station ; from 
 the Queen on her throne, to the peasant in her 
 lowly dwelling — think of what I say my dear 
 children, when the old man is in his grave, and 
 train up these two sweet girls with judicious 
 firmness, suiting the treatment to their differ- 
 ent tempers, and dispositions ; may they only 
 be like their mother — my excellent Mary, and 
 then my most anxious wishes for them, will 
 be satisfied. 
 
 A few days after this conversation, the 
 venerable Mr. Sutherland quitted his much 
 loved home, and only returned to it to be laid 
 in the burial place of his ancestors.
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. \) 
 
 Arthur Balfour was not suffered to remain 
 much longer under the guardianship of his 
 cousins, being claimed by his aristocratic rela- 
 tions ; who, however, considered they had per- 
 formed their duty by placing him at Eton, and 
 at an early age giving him a commission 
 in a crack regiment, which was soon after 
 ordered on foreign service. This was fortu- 
 nate for the young man ; qualified as he was in 
 every way to shine in society — he might — had 
 he remained in the circle of fashion, and idle- 
 ness, have been led into a vortex of dissipation, 
 calculated to alter the bias of a character, 
 which nature had formed in a most noble 
 mould. Much indeed does the happiness and 
 dignity of a young man's future destiny de- 
 pend on the society he forms, and consequently 
 the impression he imbibes on his first entrance 
 into the world ! 
 
 It was not till seven years had elapsed, that 
 with a name standing high in his profession, 
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 10 
 
 for honour and high principles, his innate 
 vigour of mincl strengthened, and his taste en- 
 riched by travel, that Arthur Balfour returned 
 to his native country. 
 
 But it was his handsome person which per- 
 haps gained for him most favour and approba- 
 tion, in the fashionable circles to which he was 
 again admitted ; he was patronised and court- 
 ed by the great — the rich — the beautiful ! 
 His mind however had acquired too healthy — 
 too fastidious a tone, to be long satisfied with 
 such frivolous companionship, and he turned 
 from the gay — trifling — glittering worldlings, 
 to the calm, intellectual Mark Sutherland, who 
 happened to be in London at this time ; and 
 it was with real delight that he received from 
 him a cordial invitation, to exchange the glare 
 and confusion of his present mode of life, for 
 the peace and serenity of the country. Mr. 
 Sutherland, on his part, as he daily became bet- 
 ter acquainted with the merits of his young 
 cousin, remembered the wishes of his grand-
 
 11 
 
 father with regard to Arthur, and his daughter 
 Maud, and it was with pleasure he recollected 
 them. Balfour was worthy of his child — his 
 choice, he was sure, would never be influenced 
 by mere beauty alone, or any worldly consid- 
 erations. " And my daughter'^ he thought — 
 and it was with the pride of a father — " shall 
 be wooed for herself and not for her fortune." 
 He forbore to dwell on the merits or attrac- 
 tions of his children, for with such a wish lurk- 
 ing in his heart, he felt that it was a delicate 
 subject ; but though he always answered Ar- 
 thur's eager enquiries concerning his cousins, with 
 the smiling promise, that he would soon have 
 an opportunity of judging for himself, of their 
 various qualifications and merits ; the young sol- 
 dier read more from the glistening eye, of intense 
 tenderness when he mentioned the name of his 
 wife, and the fond look of pride and confidence 
 with which he spoke of his daughters, than 
 if he had passed hours in descanting on their 
 perfections.
 
 12 
 
 It was at length arranged that as Mr. Suth- 
 erland would be for some time longer detained 
 in town, the young man should precede him to 
 the Manor, and arrive there the day on which 
 he had been expected. He however insisted 
 on not informing his family of this change of 
 plans, and charging Arthur with a note of 
 explanation to Mrs. Sutherland, bade him 
 adieu for a season, and Balfour, with extreme 
 delight, found himself rapidly whirling far 
 away from the crowded ball-rooms, and dusty 
 streets of London, in which he had passed the 
 last four months, during the height of what is 
 called the Season !
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 13 
 
 CHAPTER IT. 
 
 " O tell me where 
 Could majesty and power 
 Be clothed — in forms so beautiful and fair ?' 
 
 " It cannot be that years have passed 
 
 Since last I saw the place ; 
 For years bring change, and here is not 
 
 Of any change a trace." 
 
 Anon. 
 
 It was on the lovely evening before described, 
 that the young soldier approached one of those 
 fair country homes for which our island stands 
 pre-eminent. 
 
 They strike with astonished admiration
 
 14 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 travellers who have been absent in foreign 
 lands, and Sutherland Manor, situated in one 
 of the most beautiful parts of Cumberland, 
 where lake, wood, and mountain, all combine 
 their charms, was perhaps more calculated to 
 call forth those feelings than any other domain 
 in England. 
 
 Arthur Balfour had not been transported 
 from London in a few hurried hours, by the 
 aid of steam and noise, but by the less rapid 
 agency of post horses. Thus had he been ena- 
 bled to feast his eyes at pleasure, on the beau- 
 tiful scenery through which he passed, during 
 his route from the South. 
 
 When the carriage rolled swiftly through 
 the noble avenue, and then stopped at the well 
 remembered porch of his " boyhood's home," 
 so familiar did every object appear to him, that 
 even if the same children had sprung out to 
 greet him, at that moment, he would not have 
 been very much startled. 
 
 The servants however, headed by a venera-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 15 
 
 ble housekeeper, threw open wide the oaken 
 door to receive their expected master , and on 
 perceivinoj their mistake, civilly ushered him 
 into the spacious hall, from the lofty walls of 
 which, hung many a portrait of the gallant 
 knights and haughty dames of his ancient race. 
 There is a feeling of nervous embarrass- 
 ment experienced by many on a first arrival 
 after a long absence, particularly when alone, 
 and unknown — the task of introduction devolv- 
 ing on oneself — Balfour was therefore not 
 sorry, remembering that eleven years had 
 elapsed since he had been seen by his fimily, 
 to be able to announce himself to Mrs. Power, 
 and to request her to deliver to her mistress, 
 the note he had brought from Mr. Sutherland, 
 explaining the reason of his unlooked-for ap- 
 pearance. The old lady on recognising at last, 
 in the tall, manly form before her, the pretty 
 boy she had formerly so dearly loved, for 
 his own and for his father's sake — soon chang- 
 ed from her civil pomposity to the most de-
 
 16 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 lighted surprise and admiration. It was some 
 time before the good old woman had suffi- 
 ciently poured forth her expressions of aston- 
 ishment and ecstasy, to admit of her informing 
 him, that the ladies were out, but that they 
 would shortly return ; and having ushered him 
 through the long oaken vestibule into the spa- 
 cious drawing-rooms, after lingering for a little 
 more chat, she left him in order, as she said, to 
 give directions for the preparation of his sleeping 
 apartment, Arthur walked to the open window, 
 and gazed upon the beautiful scene before him — 
 a scene which had been gradually fading from 
 his memory, assuming the form of an agree- 
 able, though indistinct dream, but which now 
 seemed as familiar as if he had never left it. 
 He stepped out upon the broad, stone terrace, 
 to enjoy the cool evening breeze, laden with 
 the scent of the beautiful flowers, which grew 
 in such cultivated luxuriance around. 
 
 The house stood on an eminence, command- 
 ing a splendid and extensive view of park and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 17 
 
 wood, bordered in the distance by majestic 
 purple mountains, furrowed with glens and rapid 
 torrents. From the terrace sloped a spacious, 
 verdant lawn, at the base of which might be 
 seen, the pure, tranquil lake, glittering through 
 the numerous woody and rocky knolls, of vari- 
 ous elevations and sizes, which adorned its 
 margin. 
 
 He well remembered, how once he had dis- 
 dained the winding path, down which he was 
 now tempted to wander ; preferring rather to 
 run from the top to the bottom of the slope, at 
 the imminent peril of being precipitated into 
 the blue lake below. 
 
 He stood for some time by the water's edge, 
 with feelings of rapture and admiration swell- 
 ing in his heart, as he gazed on this spectacle 
 of nature's loveliness. His attention was soon 
 diverted by the movements of two snow-white 
 swans at a little distance from the spot ; they 
 were fluttering their wings and stretching their 
 graceful necks, evidently in the act of receiving
 
 18 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 from the hand of some one on the bank, their 
 evening meal ; for fragments of bread were 
 floating on the surface of the lake. The 
 foliage of a spreading tree, concealed the per- 
 son from Arthur's sight ; he approached 
 gently, and perceived the figure of a young 
 girl, seated on a rustic bench, beneath the 
 shady branches of the tree, and, apparently, 
 watching the movements of the stately birds. 
 
 On hearing the sound of a footstep, she 
 turned a sweet face towards him ; a bright 
 blush, at the unexpected sight of a stranger, 
 spreading over her delicate features. She rose, 
 and slightly bowing, stood as if awaiting an 
 explanation. Balfour knew at once that she 
 was a Sutherland, but which of the sisters, he 
 could not feel sure ; though certainly, those 
 mild, hazel eyes, and that gentle expression, 
 reminded him more of his little friend May, 
 than of the restless, bright-eyed Maud ; who, 
 he ever remembered equally as his torment 
 and delight.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 19 
 
 He did not however pause to consider, but 
 ajDproaching her said : 
 
 '' I do not presume to hope, Miss Suther- 
 land, that you can recollect me, though per- 
 haps you may still have some slight remem- 
 brance of Arthur Balfour, as he was in those 
 joyful days, when his home was this beautiful 
 spot, and he, the happiest of the happy. I can 
 however, almost venture to say that this is not 
 Maud Sutherland to whom I am now speaking, 
 but her sister." 
 
 " Arthur Balfour !" exclaimed May in de- 
 lighted surprise, and she extended with the 
 utmost cordiality, both her hands. " You are 
 quite right," she continued, smiling sweetly, 
 '^ I am May — I also remember you— at least, 
 I fancy I do. I never could have entirely for- 
 gotten you, hearing as I do your name so con- 
 stantly mentioned by all who knew you here." 
 
 " Mamma and Maud," she continued, '* are 
 now on the lake — we are expecting my father, 
 and as he sometimes stops at a little village on
 
 20 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 the other side and is rowed over, they went 
 there in the hope of meeting him." 
 
 Arthur was obliged to disclose the postpone- 
 ment of Mr. Sutherland's return, and to wit- 
 ness the disappointment depicted on the coun- 
 tenance of his fair cousin. It was vexatious to 
 be the bearer of such unwelcome tidings, to 
 those to whom he was so anxious to render 
 himself acceptable. 
 
 May feared she had allowed her disappoint- 
 ment to be too apparent, so she kindly told 
 him of the sincere pleasure she wats certain 
 her mother w^ould feel in again seeing one, of 
 whom she always spoke with such affection. 
 
 *' And my father," she added, " has made us 
 quite jealous lately — his letters are filled with 
 your praises !" 
 
 The conversation then turned on their 
 youthful reminiscences, and when Arthur broke 
 forth into enthusiastic, but sincere and heartfelt 
 praises of her father, the eyes of the daughter, 
 so gentle and quiet in their usual expression,
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 21 
 
 beamed with bright animation, lighting up her 
 features with such a glow of unmingled plea- 
 sure, that Arthur thought he had never seen so 
 sweet a face. 
 
 The moments fled swiftly — the fair May 
 seeming to have forgotten her late disappoint- 
 ment, and Balfour becoming so perfectly satis- 
 fied with the enjoyment of the peace inspiring 
 influence of the tranquil evening, and the soci- 
 ety of his gentle companion, whose quiet cheer- 
 fulness, so well accorded with the scene before 
 him, that he began to feel no wish for any in- 
 terruption. 
 
 " AH around was still and calm, the noon of night 
 Was fast approaching, up the unclouded sky 
 The glorious moon pursued her path of light. 
 And shed her silvery splendour far and nigh, 
 No sound save that of the night wind's gentle sigh, 
 Could reach the ear, and that so softly blew, 
 It scarcely stirred, in sweeping lightly by 
 The acacia's airy foliage " 
 
 It was indeed reviving, after many months 
 passed in London, in society little interesting
 
 22 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 to the feelings of the young man ; to gaze on 
 this scene of tranquil beauty, and to listen to 
 the soft voice of the graceful girl by his side. 
 Arthur Balfour felt inexpressibly happy. 
 
 Their quiet tete-a-tete was soon interrupted, 
 for the splashing of a light oar was heard and 
 
 •' Sweetly o'er the Lake" 
 
 resounded the notes of a guitar, accom- 
 panied by one of the most beautiful voices ever 
 heard. Very few are insensible to the charms 
 of music,and on the water the effect of melody is 
 ever heightened — at this moment, the scenery — 
 the twilight hour — the enchantment of the 
 strain — all combined to excite the imagination 
 of the young man. He could indeed have well 
 believed that he had been transported into 
 a land of enchantment. 
 
 '' Oh ! there they are !" cried May ; and after 
 a few minutes' pause, a tiny skiff, which had 
 till now been hid by an islet, richly studded 
 with birch, alders, and weeping willows, ap-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 23 
 
 peared in sight, swiftly sped by a single rower. 
 It was not yet sufficiently near to enable 
 those on the bank to distinguish the counte- 
 nances of the individuals in the boat, but it 
 could be plainly seen that they were gazing 
 earnestly towards the spot w^iere May and 
 Arthur stood. A voice as sweet, though 
 less powerful, mingled with the clear, young, 
 warblino; notes, which had at first entranced 
 the ear of Balfour. Nearer and nearer they 
 approached, and it was evident, as May ob- 
 served, that they mistook him for her father ; 
 for it was his favorite song, which welcomed him 
 to his home, and while one of the ladies joy- 
 fully waved her handkerchief, the other as 
 the boat drew near, throwing down her guitar, 
 and seizing an oar, herself guided the boat. 
 As thus she stood, her head thrown back, her 
 form erect, her dark, long, auburu ringlets 
 waved slightly by the evening breeze — her 
 rosy lips parted, which seemed to speak the word 
 " Father," she looked indeed '' The Lady of
 
 24 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 the Lake," Scott's own beautiful " Ellen 
 Douglas." 
 
 Arthur Balfour almost held his breath, 
 dreading lest this beautiful vision should van- 
 ish. And indeed a change soon came over it, 
 for at length becoming aware of her mistake, 
 the look of joy with which Balfour had at 
 first been regarded, changed to that of surpris- 
 ed scrutiny, and the fair steerer, though she 
 did not 
 
 " Push her light shallop from the shore." 
 
 still at the sight of a stranger, her efforts to 
 forward it entirely ceased. 
 
 She rested on her oar, and fixed on Arthur 
 her large, bright eyes, with a keen glance of 
 disappointment; and when she beheld how 
 earnestly the stranger looked upon her, there 
 was mingled with the deepening colour of her 
 cheek, a compression of the curling upper lip, 
 an almost imperceptible toss of the head, 
 which impressed upon the gazer's mind, the
 
 25 
 
 idea, that joined to a due sense of womanly 
 modesty, there reigned in the breast of that 
 lovely form, no small share of conscious beauty, 
 with perhaps less of vanity, than proud indif- 
 ference. The boat had now touched the bank, 
 and May bending forward, said in a low tone. — 
 
 '* Dear Mamma ! my father does not re- 
 turn for some time, but he has sent you a note 
 by Mr. Arthur Balfour !" 
 
 " Arthur Balfour !" exclaimed Mrs. Suther- 
 land, a smile of pleasure lighting up a face, 
 which though it had lost the bloom of youth, 
 was still very lovely. It was the same face 
 which had beamed with kindness on Arthur, 
 in his boyhood, and in the intervening years, 
 it had never faded from his recollection ; he 
 had seen it in his dreams, and there it was 
 again — as sweet — as almost heavenly — as he 
 had ever pictured it. 
 
 She gave him her hand to assist her from 
 the boat, received him with affectionate 
 warmth of feeling, and looked at the young 
 
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 26 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 man with earnestness, as if seeking to trace in 
 
 his handsome face, a resemblance to the little 
 Arthur she had so dearly loved. Mr. Suther- 
 land then turned to her daughters. 
 
 " May has already renewed her acquain- 
 tance with you I perceive," she said, '' but, 
 Maud, you must also welcome your cousin." 
 
 Maud, who had been regarding that cou- 
 sin, with a look more of curiosity, than cor- 
 diality, coldly extended her hand, and cast 
 down her beautiful eyes, as she listened to his 
 words of greeting ; and then she seemed to 
 think she had conferred sufficient honour, for 
 she hastily turned to her mother, who was read- 
 ing her husband's letter, and questioned her in the 
 tone of a spoilt child when disappointed of a 
 promised pleasure, as to the reason of her 
 father's non-arrival. There was something in 
 that letter which had caused Mrs. Sutherland 
 to raise her eyes, and for a moment fix them 
 with a thoughtful glance on Arthur, and her 
 eldest daughter as they stood side by side ; but
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 27 
 
 she answered her enquiries, and then taking 
 Arthur Balfour's arm. 
 
 '* I am neither so nimble or so strong," she 
 said, as they began to ascend the hill, '^ as 
 when you used to challenge me to a race, Ar- 
 thur, up and down the slope. Whilst I have 
 been gradually failing in health and agility, 
 you have been progressing in bodily power, 
 you must now render aid, instead of re- 
 quiring it from me ; and in future be content 
 with Maud and May as competitors, though 
 you formerly disdained the speed of their little 
 legs ; but tell me what do you think of your 
 playmates of days gone by ?" 
 
 Arthur pressing the hand that hung upon 
 his arm, and was sincere in the warmth with 
 which he eulogized his cousin May, " she was," 
 he said " lovely as in childhood, still possessing 
 that winning gentleness which had ever dis- 
 tinguished her in infancy." Mrs. Sutherland 
 listened to this eulogium with a gratified smile, 
 but when he paused, she looked with eagerness 
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 28 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 towards her other child, as if wishing — but at 
 the same time — hesitating to ask his opinion of 
 her. 
 
 The eyes of Balfour followed the direction 
 of Mrs. Sutherland's glance, and were soon 
 fixed on the sisters who were walking together 
 at some little distance — their fair arms encir- 
 cling each other's waists — 
 
 " A lily of the valley — 
 A rose in all its pride !" 
 
 and Arthur turned to Mrs. Sutherland and ex- 
 claimed, " Maud is beautiful — very beautiful ! 
 But," he added inwardly, " give me the gen- 
 tle lily, rather than this proud rose with all its 
 beauty !"
 
 29 
 
 CHPTER III. 
 
 " T'was not the air — tVas not the words, 
 But the deep magic in the chords, 
 And in the lips, that gave such power 
 As music knew not till that hovir." 
 
 Lallah Rooke. 
 
 How versatile is man ! Notwithstanding the 
 inward thought expressed by Arthur Balfour 
 in favour of the gentle May, when he again 
 joined the party at the tea-table, his eyes wan- 
 dered more to the " proud rose" than to the
 
 30 
 
 " gentle lily ;" but the cordial smile and kind 
 empressement^ with which Maud made room for 
 him by her side, produced as different an effect, 
 both on her beauty and on Arthur's feelings 
 respecting it, as sunshine contrasted with 
 gloomy weather, on a beautiful landscape. 
 Oh ! how repugnant to all men, is an ungra- 
 cious, repellent manner in a woman, and how 
 irresistible and universal a charm — far surpass- 
 ing beauty — is that animated suavity of address, 
 which (as some old author observes and young 
 ladies ought to learn by heart) " adds elegance 
 to the loveliest form, and causeth beauty, like the 
 rose it resembleth, to retain its sweetness, even 
 when its bloom is withered." The truth is, that 
 during their walk homewards. May had been 
 repeating to her sister, all the admiration a id 
 affection which Arthur Balfour had expressed 
 in speaking of their father ; she knew that it 
 would gratify Maud, and May was right, for 
 although she merely said, '* And who would 
 not praise our father — is he not the most per-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 31 
 
 feet of men ? — a person must be blind, or con- 
 temptible indeed, who did not appreciate his 
 superior merits !" — still the effect was favoura- 
 ble to Arthur Balfour. Mrs. Power was in the 
 drawing-room when he entered, on the plea of 
 superintending the preparations for tea, but in 
 reality for the purpose of hearing what her mis- 
 tress had to say on the subject of the new ar- 
 rival, and of delivering her own comments on 
 the topic in question. 
 
 '• Mrs. Power has been entertaining us with 
 anecdotes of ' the merry days when we were 
 young' Mr. Balfour, or Arthur I suppose I 
 may call you — though we are but third cou- 
 sins," said Maud, as the housekeeper, having 
 exhausted her admiration and employment^ 
 left the room. — '' By her account, it appears I 
 behaved very ill to you ; I think I do remem- 
 ber," she exclaimed, laughing and raising her 
 dark eyes as if endeavouring to bring back the 
 past, more vividly before her, '* yes now I 
 quite remember, being rather jealous of your
 
 32 
 
 attentions to May, who would insist upon 
 sitting upon your knee for hours together, 
 stroking your face, or playing with your 
 curls, whilst you told her stories — Yes, May, 
 you need not blush, it is true indeed. I 
 do not think," she added, again turning to 
 Balfour, '' that I attacked you personally ; per- 
 haps because your sense of gallantry was too 
 great, to permit you to resent it ; so I tyran- 
 nised over my rival, and then you were angry 
 enough — May found you a brave champion." 
 
 " And so I trust she will ever find me in 
 her cause," answered Arthur, smiling, " but I 
 only hope it may be against some other en- 
 emy, for though I have grown older and 
 braver, I doubt much whether my courage 
 would be now sufficient, to resist such a foe, — 
 and such fire !" 
 
 And he shaded his eyes with much terror 
 from the brilliant orbs, which were laughingly 
 fixed upon him. 
 
 The conversation was carried on in this
 
 33 
 
 strain for some time, till at length Mrs. Suth- 
 erland begged for her usual evening amuse- 
 ment of music, and Balfour again heard that 
 beautiful voice, which had before delighted his 
 ear. No expense had been spared in its culti- 
 vation, but in this instance nature still tri- 
 umphed over art, for its rich melody could 
 scarcely be improved. May also sang sweetly, 
 and her voice blended well with that of her 
 sister, but it did not possess the same power 
 and compass. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland, who fatigued by the exer- 
 cise she had taken, was reclining on the sofa 
 enjoying the music, and watching with plea- 
 sure Arthur's admiration of her favorite child, 
 suddenly exclaimed, 
 
 " Do you retain the musical talent you pos- 
 sessed as a boy ? I had made you quite a good 
 singer when you left me." 
 
 " I have never lost the taste for it, acquired 
 
 by your instruction," Bafour replied, *' Ours is 
 
 a musical regiment. The band under our au- 
 c 5
 
 34 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 spices is one of the finest in the service — I only 
 wish you could hear it !" 
 
 " But as that is not quite possible at pre- 
 sent," interrupted Maud, " I think it would be 
 as well if you would give us a specimen of 
 your own performance. Mamma enquired 
 whether you could sing, and as I plainly per- 
 ceive that you can^ I beg you will begin, with- 
 out giving us the trouble of pressing you any 
 further. It is very fortunate," she continued, 
 '' that you do like music, for here we almost ex- 
 ist upon it." 
 
 Arthur however assured her, that his talent 
 had hitherto been confined to taking parts in 
 glees, trios, &c. with his brother officers, and 
 insisted with some firmness on being excused 
 for that night at least. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland 'and May at length united 
 in his cause — seeing his evident reluctance — 
 pleading as an apology the fatigue of his long 
 journey. —
 
 35 
 
 *' We will not let him oiF so easily another 
 time," added Maj. 
 
 Maud opened her large eyes, and fixed them 
 upon him with anger and astonishment, at hav- 
 ing found one so bold as for a moment to re- 
 sist her will, and she was silently rising from 
 the instrument, as if disdaining to use further 
 entreaties, when May whispered in the ear of 
 the offender. 
 
 " Do sing to please Maud." 
 
 Whether his obstinacy were quelled by the 
 gentle expression which accompanied this 
 last petition, or by the fiery glance previ- 
 ously darted upon him by the imperious beauty, 
 we know not, but Arthur turning towards the 
 piano-forte, looked over a heap of music 
 which lay near it, and suddenly stopped when 
 he came to the glee, '* Blow gentle gales." 
 
 May who had followed him, on perceiving 
 this, joyfully exclaimed : 
 
 *' Oh, I see by the expression of your coun- 
 tenance that you sing this ! Maud pray do
 
 36 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 come — Arthur can sing ' Blow gentle gales' — - 
 we always so much wished to find a third 
 voice — Papa will be delighted — it is his favorite 
 trio." 
 
 Maud who had walked to the window, and 
 was at that moment seemingly intent on 
 watching the lovely moon as it sailed in 
 majestic beauty froai beneath the dark clouds, 
 and cast its mild radiance on the clear lake, 
 quite forgot her offended dignity on hearing 
 this explanation ; and was in another instant 
 at the instrument, joining in that sweet glee, 
 which so well suited their respective voices — 
 and Maud vouchsafed to smile again on Arthur 
 Balfour. 
 
 He went to rest with that smile before his 
 eyes — and sweet sounds ringing in his ears, 
 which, notwithstanding the fatigues of the day, 
 for a considerable time banished sleep from 
 his eyelidsr
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 37 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 " True happiness is not a plant of eartt, 
 The search is fruitless, if you seek it here-— 
 'Tis an exotic of celestial birth, 
 And never blooms but in celestial air. 
 It rises oft and buds, but ne'er was seen 
 To blossom quite— the climate is too cold. ' 
 
 If Sutherland Manor looked beautiful in the 
 subdued light of eve, how much more lovely 
 did it appear, lighted up by the bright radiance 
 of morning sunshine— and if Arthur Balfour 
 on his first arrival, was delighted with its in-
 
 38 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 mates — how greatly did the charm increase-—' 
 as, day by day, he gazed on their beauty, and 
 discovered how superior was their excel- 
 lence of mind. It was to him a second para- 
 dise, where happiness alone could intrude— and 
 when, during the folowing week, Mr. Suther- 
 land returned home— it was indeed the perfec- 
 tion of domestic bliss. 
 
 Whilst journeying through this vale of tears, 
 now and then a picture may present itself, of 
 seemingly unbounded prosperity, one over 
 which the sky appears so serene and cloudless, 
 that a dark spot can never be discerned to dim 
 its pure azure — where the sun of happiness is 
 for ever shining I — but alas ! — those, whom 
 grief has made wise, look with trembling on 
 the brightness — " Can all this last ? Man is 
 born to trouble," they exclaim, '' and is it pos* 
 sible that any of the race of Adam shall be ex- 
 empted from the usual sorrows of mortality ?" 
 Perhaps, with the experience of misfortune, 
 they can perceive high above the heads of
 
 THE gambler's wife. 39 
 
 these favoured mortals, that same small, dark 
 spot, *' not bigger than a man's hand" — almost 
 imperceptible from the surrounding brightness. 
 But that it must increase— and spread — and in 
 time, cover with its sackcloth hue, the hitherto 
 unclouded firmament, is a matter of awful cer- 
 tainty—and when at last the storm bursts — 
 woe be to them who have built their hopes on 
 the quicksand of this world's perishable bliss. 
 
 " Whatever passes as a cloud between 
 The mental eye of faith, and things unseen, 
 Causing that bright world to disappear, 
 Or seem less lovely, or its hopes less dear, 
 This is our world— our idol—though it bear 
 Affection's impress, or devotion's air." 
 
 And such was the danger that awaited the 
 Sutherlands. From the day of their marriage, 
 until the present hour — perfect felicity had 
 been the lot of Mark Sutherland and his wife. 
 People are generally supposed to have some 
 skeleton in their closet — some Mte noir to cre- 
 ate an alloy, in the best regulated and happiest
 
 40 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 families — but no such monster seemed to haunt 
 the house of the Sutherlands. Every wish was 
 gratified — Some might perchance think that 
 one more blessing might still be desired — a son 
 to inherit his father's fortune and name — but 
 the father himself thought not of it. In the 
 full tide of his prosperity, it was not on 
 wordly possessions that his heart was placed ; 
 he valued them only as they contributed to the 
 happiness of his greatest treasure — his wife ! 
 And his love was returned with as deep— as 
 fervent an intensity, mixed with a still purer, 
 holier flame — '* speaking less of earth than 
 Heaven," which created a beneficial influence 
 on the husband. But even from Paradise — 
 with all its beauty and innocence — sin could 
 not be excluded ; and so in the loveliest 
 mind, some dark shade will ever mingle 
 itself, teaching a sad lesson of the innate 
 earthliness of human nature. In the heart of 
 Mrs. Sutherland this shade of imperfection
 
 ^ 
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 41 
 
 arose from the most tender of human feelings, 
 
 "A mother's love ." 
 
 but its excess became a sin ! — poisoned the 
 healthful tide — and drew into the snare her 
 husband — but all she did was right in his eyes. 
 By the injunctions of old Mr. Sutherland 
 not to spoil young Maud — it was evident, even 
 at that early age, she was at least showing 
 signs of a disposition, which required strict 
 attention and management — but was the old 
 man's advice regarded and remembered ? 
 
 Daily increasing in loveliness, and fascination, 
 the child entwined herself more closely round 
 the mother's heart, and it became at last that 
 parent's sole thought, to shield from every 
 infantine grief — her heart's darling. And 
 how did the little girl bear this overweening 
 fondness ? 
 
 She soon began to know no will but her 
 own — no sorrow but when that will was 
 crossed —and that was indeed very seldom — for
 
 42 
 
 as in the nursery she won every heart by her 
 childish grace — her merry ringing laugh, which 
 gladdened all around her, and made them bow 
 down willingly to her self-willed pride, when it 
 was excited, so was it also in the school-room. 
 Her governess, not understanding her disposi- 
 tion, at first attempted to restrain, with au- 
 thority the spirit of defiance and wilfulness, 
 which she discovered in her pupil, but the 
 gentle nature of the preceptress quailed at the 
 fierce resistance of the child, and the fiery 
 glance shot from the dark eyes, which in anger 
 rested upon her. She tried submission on her 
 part and the experiment succeeded. The little 
 girl yielded of her own accord — gentleness on 
 the part of Miss Meyer effected what severe 
 authority never could have accomplished, and 
 she afterwards astonished her governess by her 
 talent, good sense and amiability, when not op- 
 posed ! 
 
 Tha young Maud had strong feelings, and 
 those she loved, she adored passionately ; but
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 43 
 
 her affections had been confined to her 
 father, mother and sister ; as they never contra- 
 dicted her it was difficult to discriminate 
 whether her love for them, or her self- 
 will, would gain the victory, if set in opposi- 
 tion one with the other. Had a little judicious 
 fear been mingled with the love she bore her 
 parents, her proud spirit might have been kept 
 in stricter bonds, for it did once happen that 
 she deeply wounded her mother's heart— that 
 heart which would willingly have bled to save 
 her from the slightest pang, and then she in 
 her turn trembled, and quailed, before her 
 father's stern gaze, and the angry words that 
 fell from his lips, which had never before breathed 
 ought but tender endearments towards her. 
 She fell on his neck, and in an agony of grief' 
 as violent in its nature as her former pride 
 and passion, implored him not to look upon 
 her with such offended eyes, or she must surely 
 die. He pressed her to his heart and said, 
 whilst a tear glistened in his eye,
 
 44 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 '' Never again grieve your mother, Maud, 
 that I Dever can forgive." 
 
 And it was long— very long ere she again 
 did so. Childhood passed, and sense increas- 
 ing with her years, curbed in some degree the 
 unruly passions, which had formerly swayed 
 her impulses. The year before this story com- 
 mences, she had on attaining her seventeenth 
 year been presented at Court, and mixed for a 
 while in the gaities of a London Season. Her 
 parents for her sake, left the comparative seclu- 
 sion in which they had for some time dwelt — 
 a seclusion at least from the London world ! 
 Mrs. Sutherland's health was delicate, and 
 their children were so young, that except for 
 the benefit of masters, they had rarely left 
 their country home. But now they thought it 
 right that Maud should see something of the 
 world, in which, both on account of her brilli- 
 ant prospects, and personal attractions, she was 
 probably destined to play a conspicuous part.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 45 
 
 For awhile the fair debutante seemed dazzled by 
 the eclat which attended her appearance, and her 
 anxious parents began to fear that the pure 
 and innocent enjoyments, which had hitherto 
 gilded her young life, would never again be so 
 fully appreciated ; but in this instance they 
 judged erroneously. 
 
 One day Maud appeared before them, and 
 to their great surprise, entreated her parents, 
 in a manner which showed plainly, that she 
 intended to brook no refusal, to take her back 
 to her " dear beautiful Sutherland," for she 
 was sick to death of London and its society. 
 
 They hesitated, but as usual she soon gained 
 her point, and was as happy to escape from 
 the noble and fashionable crowd of admirers, 
 who were in the train of the beautiful heiress, 
 as May, to leave the masters and confined 
 school-room, where she — not having yet 
 " come out," past most of her London season, 
 and while some anxious and disappointed
 
 46 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 eyes, were gazing with astonishment and 
 dismay, at the list of names in the '' departures" 
 of the " Morning Post," and others searching 
 amidst the beauteous maze of ball room — 
 opera — or fete, for the Star which had shone 
 for a little moment with such brightness. 
 Maud was flying back to her home, as joy- 
 ous, as callous of the sensation she had cre- 
 ated, as a pet bird which escapes from its cage, 
 and flies to the woods and groves, far away 
 from those who have long fled and cherished it. 
 Shortly after this period the increased de- 
 cline of Mrs. Sutherland's health, caused all 
 hearts to cling more tenderly around her — 
 It seemed as if at last, on the clear firmariient 
 above them, a small, dark cloud was becom- 
 ing visible, but so gradually did it spread, that 
 they could scarcely as yet perceive it. It was 
 dim to all, save her on whom it more imme- 
 diately lowered. She knew — though distant 
 the time might be — that it must eventually
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 47 
 
 separate her from those she loved so well, 
 and while the idea made her cling more fondly 
 round her beloved ones — it made her also 
 strive to pierce that dark cloud, to behold the 
 glory beyond, and there to raise her hopes — 
 praying that those belonging to her might 
 rise there also— far above this world of sight 
 and sense. 
 
 But though the bloom on her cheek, was 
 giving place to a more delicate — a more hectic 
 tinge, she only seemed in the eyes of her hus- 
 band and children more lovely than ever, and 
 though her once light-bounding step could no 
 longer climb the steep hill, or mountain, or 
 bear the fatigue of a gallop on the favorite 
 horse — her husband was so happy to find her 
 leaning on his arm as she walked ; and her chil- 
 dren to lead her pony up the ascents, or drive 
 her in their quiet, little equipage ; and do all in 
 their power to raise up that sweet, pleased and 
 gratified smile, which had now taken place of
 
 48 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 cheerful laugh, which used to gladden all 
 around her — that they sometimes forgot 
 the cause which called for these anxious atten- 
 tions — her altered and declining health. 
 
 She was still as calmly cheerful — as un- 
 complaining unmindful of self, as she had 
 ever been. The medical men too — the most 
 skilful of whom had been consulted in Lon- 
 don — raised no alarm in the minds of her 
 family — they only recommended great care and 
 quiet, and these she never lacked. Even 
 Maud forgot self, in striving to administer to 
 her mother's comfort — the mother who had 
 done so much for her — And May, we must say 
 one word of her. 
 
 She had fulfilled the prophecy of her 
 father, whilst she was yet a child, that " her 
 will would be ever that of those she loved." — 
 And she was fondly beloved — equally valued as 
 her sister, but in a different way — she ruled 
 that love, with a humbler — gentler, a more
 
 49 
 
 grateful sway. She was less lovely than 
 Maud — her beauty like that of her namesake 
 month, was fresh — smiling, but more sub- 
 dued — less dazzling than that of her summer 
 sister. 
 
 She won all hearts by her sweet temper — 
 her considerate thoughtfulness towards others, 
 her simplicity and naivete. 
 
 " In truth she was a light and lovely thing, 
 Fair as the opening flower of eaily spring." 
 
 VOL. I. I>
 
 50 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 " This should have been a noble creature ; he 
 
 Hath all the energy which would have made 
 
 A goodly frame of glorious elements, 
 
 Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, 
 
 It is an awful chaos — light and darkness 
 
 And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts 
 
 Mix'd, and contending without end or order, 
 
 All dormant or destructive." 
 
 Byron. 
 
 " We have been so happy and merry together," 
 said Mr. Sutherland one morning, about a 
 month after his return home, when the party 
 were all seated round the breakfast table, read- 
 ing and commenting on the contents of their
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 51 
 
 various letters and newspapers, '* we have 
 been so contented with ourselves that we have 
 forgotten the duties of hospitality, and have 
 not invited any one into the house for ages — 
 We must have some one, Arthur to help us to 
 shoot the partridges. I have however been 
 quieting my conscience, by thinking how well 
 this calm life suits that lady," and Mr. Suther- 
 land looked towards his wife. 
 
 '' Oh yes, Mark !" she answered imploringly, 
 *' do let us remain at present as we are ; the par- 
 tridges I am sure will not complain that they 
 are neglected ; for you seem to give all the 
 country leave to shoot them, if I may judge 
 from the continual fire of shots kept up all day 
 — nor can our neighbours either." 
 
 '' And what have you to say about it, Maud?" 
 continued Mr. Sutherland, " ought we not to 
 give your cousin a little country gaiety, in 
 return for having left London for the sake of 
 our society." 
 
 '' I know not what my cousin may think on 
 D 3 
 
 UnSt^ of ILLINOIS
 
 52 THE gambt.er's wife. 
 
 the subject," was her reply, '* but for my part 
 I had enough of both town and country gaiety 
 last year — I had no sooner escaped from the 
 former, hoping for a little peace and quiet, 
 when some of the same faces and same speeches 
 I had seen and heard in London followed me 
 here." 
 
 " Did they all come to shoot partridges ?" 
 asked Arthur slyly, for he had heard of her 
 numerous conquests. 
 
 She blushed, and replied rather haughtily, 
 " They might have come to try to ensnare 
 other game, but if such were their intention 
 they went away without having succeeded in 
 the attempt." 
 
 ** To give you a proof of how little tired I am 
 of my present life," said Arthur, *' I will, if 
 you will permit me, take the liberty of refus- 
 ing these invitations I have just received ; and 
 remain," — he added more seriously, while he 
 gave a timid glance at one of the uparty, 
 '* where I have passed five wrecks of such
 
 THE GAMBLFll's WIFE. 53 
 
 perfect happiness that they have seemed but 
 one. 
 
 All but the individual to whom that glance 
 was directed, expressed their warm approval of 
 this proposal, and she concealed her face with 
 the newspaper which had been hastily taken 
 up, and seemed buried in its contents, so that 
 no one saw the bright glow, which lighted up 
 her face, or the sparkling of her eyes — 
 kindled — either by the words she had heard, or 
 something in the paragraph she seemed so 
 attentively perusing. 
 
 " I have not however yet told you," said 
 Mr. Sutherland, " of the addition I expect to 
 our party. He is a self-invited guest, and 
 although you all appear to have become such 
 misanthropes, I think none of the ladies will 
 object, when I name him as the fascinating, 
 irresistible Harry Percy." 
 
 '* Is he indeed coming here ?" exclaimed Mrs. 
 Sutherland, in a tone of interest mingled with 
 a shade of painful anxiety.
 
 54 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 Maud removed the paper from before her 
 face, and even May suddenly stopped in the 
 very act of pouring out her mother's coffee, to 
 listen to this announcement, which indeed 
 seemed to have created so great a sensation, 
 that Arthur's curiosity was excited. 
 
 " Who is this redoubtable Harry Percy ?" 
 he exclaimed. 
 
 " Never proclaim your ignorance, by asking 
 such a question," replied Mr. Sutherland 
 laughing. *' Why, Balfour, not to know Harry 
 Percy, proclaims at once yourself unknown — 
 at least in the sporting world." 
 
 *' And in that world I cannot say I have as 
 yet been much initiated," said Arthur ; "^ the 
 Balfours are not a sporting family, and I do 
 not ever recollect meeting him any where — 
 though now I think of it, I have some remem- 
 brance of having heard his name mentioned, 
 and of having once at the Opera seen him, 
 when he was pointed out to me, by a fair 
 relative — I knew not however that he was so
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 55 
 
 noted a character, or so intimate a friend of 
 yours ; it would have then made a stronger im- 
 pression upon me." 
 
 *' Not only a friend," replied Mrs. Suther- 
 land, " but a relative — he is my nephew — the 
 son of my sister who was very dear to me, and 
 for her sake, I love him — although circum- 
 stances, and different tastes and pursuits have 
 much separated us." 
 
 " I do not know what country air may do for 
 him," exclaimed Maud, *' but I am sure when 
 I saw him in London, I did not perceive any- 
 thing so very fascinating in his appearance, at 
 least — First of all he is quite old, more than 
 thirty, and — " 
 
 *' Have mercy, Maud, upon what you call 
 elderly gentlemen, past thirty !" interposed her 
 father laughing. 
 
 " However," continued the young beauty, 
 " I remember when May and I were children 
 we considered him all perfection, for many a
 
 56 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 holiday and amusement he begged for us, allow- 
 ing us to tease him, and romp with him, as much 
 as we pleased — and he used to kiss us so 
 often and tell us we were beautiful — which, to 
 tell you the truth, always won my heart, 
 though May was indifferent to such praise." 
 
 All the party laughed heartily at this frank 
 avowal, and she continued. — 
 
 '' And then a few years after, when the 
 house was full of visiters, and mamma occu- 
 pied in entertaining them — we poor wretches 
 were consequently kept still closer prisoners to 
 the school-room, and how delighted we felt on a 
 long, wet afternoon, to see his merry face peep in, 
 and to hear him ask leave to enter — and so was 
 Miss Meyer I am sure — though she always, at 
 first, endeavoured to look demure, but her 
 gravity soon disappeared, and it ended in her 
 laughing nearly as much as we did, at his droll 
 stories — and do you remember. May, how she 
 used to blush at his high flown compliments —
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 57 
 
 not on her beauty — be bad tbe tact to know 
 what flattery would suit ber best — ber 
 attainments were bis tbeme of praise — 
 or wbat sbe prized still more — those of ber 
 pupils." 
 
 " Yes!^' said May, " but sbe used however 
 to look grave, if sbe saw by your tell tale 
 blushes, Maud, that be was pouring compli- 
 ments in our ears, and then sbe would say that 
 we were too old to be told that we were 
 pretty — or clever." 
 
 '' But I am sure I liked him all tbe better 
 for it," laughed Maud ; "for I believe I was 
 rather fond of admiration then^^'' she added 
 colouring slightly, for she saw the eyes of 
 Arthur fixed upon ber, with an enquiring look, 
 which seem to say, 
 
 '* And are you fond of it now ?" 
 
 *' No one understands better than Percy 
 how to suit his compliments, to those on whom 
 he bestows tbem," remarked Mr. Sutherland. 
 . D 5
 
 58 THE GAMBLEaS WIFE. 
 
 It is partly on that account I believe that 
 he is such a favorite with the ladies." 
 
 " But I am sure," again persisted Maud, 
 " at the few places at which I met him last 
 year, or when he called at our house, which was 
 not often, I never saw anyone look so ill; such 
 a long, sallow face, nothing left of beauty, but 
 his magnificent eyes, which, from a baby, I 
 always remarked ; and then when he did try to 
 make himself agreeable at a ball — it seemed all 
 effort, or false excitement — and in a morning 
 visit he was always so busy talking to 
 you papa, that — " 
 
 " That he had not time to win his fair 
 cousin's approbation, by the fine speeches 
 which once gained her heart — speeches she was 
 hearing from so many others at that time." 
 
 '' No papa, I meant not that," she answered, 
 erecting her graceful head, ** he would soon, 
 like those others, have found how little value 
 I set upon them now." 
 
 '* It is not so much in London," said Mr.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 59 
 
 Sutherland, ** that he shoots his arrows at 
 ladies' hearts — he keeps that sport for country 
 amusement — sport which he seems to class with 
 the destruction of pheasants and hares, wounding 
 them as carelessly, and without receiving injury 
 himself. A skilful marksman is Harry Percy, 
 and rarely — very rarely he misses his aim. In 
 London his thoughts, as well as his heart, are 
 engaged with other game ; less detrimental 
 are then his pursuits to the fair sex — far more 
 ruinous to himself, poor fellow ! No wonder 
 his cheeks are hollow and his spirits forced — 
 much has he to answer for — riches and health 
 despised and wasted — time and talents misap- 
 plied ! When you last saw him, Maud, he was 
 enduring the misery and annoyance, resulting 
 from a gambler's ruined fortune !" 
 
 " Poor Harry !" sighed Mrs. Sutherland, *' it 
 is indeed sad to reflect on his career of error 
 and folly." 
 
 " His affairs, which I trust T have in some 
 measure arranged — at least for the present,"
 
 60 
 
 continued Mr. Sutherland, " make it necessary 
 that for a short time, he should retire from the 
 world — he therefore begs me to lend him 
 * Percy Castle,' as he calls a cottage he used 
 formerly to occupy, for he says his health and 
 spirits are in a sad state, and quiet and solitude, 
 enlivened by the society of his aunt and cousins, 
 will best tend to revive both his mind and 
 body.'^ 
 
 *' Ah," said Mrs. Sutherland in a gentle, 
 pitying tone, " I fear his satiated feelings will 
 be unable to relish I he simple, unexcitable re- 
 freshment, we can afford him." 
 
 " I do not agree with you there," replied 
 her husband ; '* we flatter ourselves, that our 
 society is not quite so unpalatable as you 
 would infer, my dear Mary ; and I assure you, 
 Harry Percy, when speaking of his intended 
 visit, professed to anticipate as much pleasure, 
 from fishing parties on the lake — excursions up 
 the mountains — songs from Maud and May — 
 quiet chats with you, Mary, and lastly, 
 shooting partridges with Arthur and myself.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 61 
 
 as he ever did from an evening at Crock- 
 ford's, or the Derby day and St. Leger." 
 
 Maud curled her lip, at the idea of her 
 society and attractions being placed on a par, 
 with such objects and pursuits, and Mr. 
 Sutherland rising and walking to the window, 
 proposed their all adjourning to the cottage. 
 
 " A quiet walk will do you good this fine 
 morning, Mary. I must arrange about having 
 the })lace put in order, to receive so refined a 
 tenant, and the assistance and taste of ladies 
 are always valuable in such cases." 
 
 The whole party were soon in motion, enjoy- 
 ing the fresh exhilarating air of a lovely Sep- 
 tember morning.
 
 62 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTEK VI. 
 
 " Who plays for more 
 Than he can lose, with pleasure stakes his heart." 
 
 Game is a civil gunpowder in peace, 
 Blowing up houses with their whole increase/' 
 
 Herbert. 
 
 Their way led over a common covered with 
 fragrant heath, which joined the outskirts of 
 the pleasure grounds of the Manor, a smooth, 
 verdant path, which looked very tempting for a 
 gallop, running through the midst of it—and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 63 
 
 over this path they now proceeded, Arthur, 
 with a fair cousin on either arm, his quick, 
 firm, soldier-like tread, soon out-stripping the 
 languid step of Mrs. Sutherland, who with her 
 kind husband, suiting his pace to hers, followed 
 at a distance. 
 
 She listened with delight to the merry voices 
 of the trio, borne back to her by the breeze, 
 and sounding to her ears more sweet than 
 the musical notes of the birds which hovered 
 near. 
 
 The father gazed after them with fond pride. 
 
 '•' How beautiful Maud is !' he said. 
 
 And this led to their conversing on a subject 
 which, though it became day by day nearer 
 their hearts, they rarely touched upon, even to 
 each other, for they felt it to be one of peculiar 
 delicacy. It was the wish expressed by their 
 grandfather, and which vv'as gradually becoming 
 not only their own desire, but their most earnest 
 hope. It was a hope and desire springing from
 
 64 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 the purest motive, not from pride or any 
 worldly consideration, or they would not have 
 fixed their wishes upon the young soldier, as a 
 husband for their idolized daughter, incapable 
 as he was of augmenting her wealth, or raising 
 her to a higher station ; for with all her advan- 
 tages, both of fortune and beauty, they might 
 have claimed for her an alliance amidst the 
 noble and wealthy of the land. 
 
 But even setting aside all family reasons, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland would have still 
 chosen Arthur from among many, for the 
 protector — the future guide of their high 
 spirited — their self-willed Maud ! 
 
 They well knew that on the choice of that 
 guide, the happiness — the well-being of her 
 life would depend. She would need a firm 
 but gentle disposition to compete with hers, 
 and strong, unvarying affection to satisfy her 
 exigeante heart. She would never brook indiffer- 
 ence or neglect. It would either crush her
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 65 
 
 proud spirit, or turn her warm love into bitter 
 hate. Weak servility she would despise — 
 tyranny would rouse into fury all the fierce 
 rebellious feelings within her. 
 
 The parents well knew the failings and 
 peculiarities of their child, and whom had they 
 seen, so calculated to soften the asperities of her 
 character, and direct it into a proper course, as 
 the manly, high-minded, mild and affectionate 
 Arthur Balfour ; but they would lend no assist- 
 ance in forwarding their wishes — they even 
 sought to conceal them from the parties con- 
 cerned, till circumstances should fully justify 
 their declaring them. They expected it to be 
 a work of time, so they were not disheartened 
 at perceiving as yet, in the deportment of the 
 young people towards each other, merely the 
 calm, frank attention of a brother, shewn by 
 Arthur to Maud, and accepted by her, in the 
 same merry, careless, matter-of-course manner, 
 with which she generally received the devotion
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 66 
 
 of her family, and none of the proud scorn she 
 bestowed on her London admirers. 
 
 They also saw that Arthur was less dazzled 
 than others had been with the bright beauty of 
 Maud — but time and her charms would be in- 
 vincible they little doubted — although, per- 
 haps, anxiety mingled with their hopes. 
 
 After a walk of about a quarter of a mile 
 across the common, the party reached a thick 
 wood, the favorite resort of scores of pheasants 
 and hares — and there stood a rustic cottage, 
 the " Percy Castle," of which Mr. Sutherland 
 had spoken. It had once been the residence of 
 a maiden sister of his grandfather, but on her 
 death, was occasionally lent as a shooting box 
 to relations, or intimate friends, who preferred 
 a private establishment to the hospitality of the 
 Manor. 
 
 The now expected occupant had laughingly 
 conferred the present exalted title upon it, hav- 
 ing in former days made the cottage his abode ;
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 67 
 
 and here once more, under its low, thatched 
 roof, in its quiet, simple rooms, with no sounds 
 to break in upon his retirement, save the 
 waving of the trees, or the chirping of the 
 birds, he would have time to ruminate in 
 silence, over fortune ruined — time lost — talents 
 despised and misapplied — friends estranged — 
 and all the ruin brought about through the 
 agency of that selfish, unworthy propensity, 
 which principle and moral courage were not 
 strong enough to enable him to cast aside, and 
 had therefore proved the bane of his exist- 
 ence — the destroyer of his happiness — the per- 
 verter of his once noble heart and virtuous re- 
 solutions — and this was the vice of gam- 
 bling ! Yes — Harry Percy began his career 
 with the brightest prospects of worldly pros- 
 perity. Beloved and admired by all, both 
 abroad, and at home — his animation, wit, 
 talents — his affectionate, warm manners — his 
 handsome person, and a certain fascination of 
 demeanour which was irresistible, won all
 
 68 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 hearts— No wonder, with so many attractions, 
 that even before he had obtained his ma- 
 jority — he made an easy entrance into the most 
 select circles of fashionable life — was courted, 
 feted, flattered — his presence hailed with 
 delight wherever he went ; and Harry Percy, 
 pleased with himself, was pleased with all the 
 world. 
 
 It had been well with him if he could have 
 remained contented with this happiness, for he 
 had indeed " the ball at his feet." But [his 
 position was one of peril. He was an aim for 
 more dangerous shafts than the bright eyes of 
 the lovely beings whom he assembled in the 
 winter, when he kept open house at his beautiful 
 place in Cheshire. 
 
 In the fashionable world there is a set, 
 which is composed indeed of many who are 
 styled noble— honourable, but whose nobility and 
 honour are like the beauty of the painted and 
 garnished sepulchre, serving only as a cover 
 for much that is false and dishonourable, profli-
 
 THE GAMBLER S WIFE. bV 
 
 gate and dissolute ; and of such as these did the 
 gifted Harry Percy become the prey. 
 
 He had commenced life prematurely early, 
 and satiated tastes led him easily to seek for 
 fresh excitement, in the paths his associates 
 pointed out to him. Whatever he undertook, he 
 entered into with enthusiasm — With the 
 natural energy of his disposition, he plunged 
 into the gulph of gambling, and sank never to 
 rise again — his open handed, careless liberality, 
 making him a ready victim to the sharks who 
 had thus allured him. 
 
 Warnings he had many, but they availed 
 not — Fortune, which had from his birth so 
 kindly smiled upon him, seemed now to desert 
 him — however sink or swim in the unhallowed 
 stream in which he had plunged — there he 
 must remain. At the age of thirty his pos- 
 sessions were dissipated, his free, generous 
 spirit enslaved. 
 
 His noble estate was sold to satisfy the 
 numerous creditors who poured clamorously
 
 70 
 
 upon him, and from whose importunities he 
 must have made a shameful retreat from the 
 country, had it not been for the liberal assist- 
 ance of Mr. Sutherland. 
 
 And the heart of the gamester ! — After years 
 of such companionship — such pursuits, who could 
 preserve his heart from the canker worm, 
 which gradually works its way, devouring all 
 that is fair and beautiful within ? 
 
 But the fair exterior remained, and though by 
 degrees he had disappeared in part from those 
 circles of London gaiety, of which he had once 
 been the ornament and delight — though 
 mothers now as carefully guarded their daugh- 
 ters from the ruined spendthrift as they had 
 formerly courted and encouraged the rich, 
 eligible parti, Harry Percy, still he was the 
 irresistible, facinating — the more dangerous, if 
 possible, to every heart he chose to van- 
 quish, whenever did he enter into society.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 71 
 
 CHAPTEK VII. 
 
 " As I pursued my journey 
 I spied a withered hag, with age grown double, 
 Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself ; 
 Her eyes with scalding rheum, were galled and red, 
 Cold palsy shook her head, her hand seemed withered." 
 
 Otway. 
 
 We must retrace our steps to the cottage, 
 where Arthur and his fair companions had long 
 since arrived. 
 
 Balfour was standing by the lattice window 
 from which two young faces were peeping,
 
 72 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 looking like roses amongst the green vine 
 leaves which surrounded them. 
 
 At the rustic porch was one who curiously 
 scrutinized their every action — listened to every 
 word that fell from the lips of the merry group, 
 to which she formed so striking a contrast ; for 
 she was old and very hideous, her decrepitude 
 and infirmity approaching nearly to deformity ; 
 at first sight she seemed almost unearthly. To 
 Maud and May however, she was an accus- 
 tomed object, therefore the old crone remained 
 unnoticed by them. 
 
 *' Reach me that bunch of grapes Arthur," 
 exclaimed Maud, '* they look very tempting, 
 and will be most refreshing after our walk." 
 
 Arthur with some difficulty contrived to 
 gather the luxuriant cluster, which like all 
 good things grew much higher, and were con- 
 sequently more unattainable than the rest. 
 
 The old hag followed his movements with 
 her small blear eyes, as if she grudged the 
 grapes being given to Maud.
 
 73 
 
 " Oh ! Arthur, I see a bunch much more 
 beautiful,'^ again cried the capricious lady, 
 stretching her graceful neck out of the win- 
 dow, *' there look, just above the porch — I 
 must have them instead of these." 
 
 " Do you mean those ?" replied Arthur, 
 pointing to a cluster, '* I assure you they are 
 not half so ripe as the others — Now May, I 
 must find you some as fine, if I can." 
 
 ** May shall have these, if she will con- 
 descend to receive rejected goods — I have quite 
 set my heart upon that other bunch, and have 
 it, I must and will, so quick ; sir," added Maud, 
 with mock command. 
 
 " Oh pray give them to me," replied May^ 
 " I shall not be so foolish, sister mine, as to 
 throw away the best grapes, because they have 
 been rejected ; and I think," she continued, 
 bursting into a merry laugh, at the dismayed 
 look with which the coveted bunch (on nearer 
 inspection proving hardly ripe) was received 
 
 TOL. L E
 
 74 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 by her sister, " I think the pretty lady who 
 refused them, would now take them back in 
 exchange for her * beauties.' " 
 
 '' Oh no," said Maud half provoked, but half 
 laughing too, *' these sour ones gave Arthur 
 rather more trouble, which is a consolation — I 
 never care about anything which is within 
 every body's reach ; but" continued she in a sly 
 tone, fixing her eyes with a playful, covetous 
 look on the fruit in May's hand, '' I would not 
 have been so mean spirited, little sister, as to 
 have accepted what another had despised — 
 and after all they are not so veri/ fine.'' — 
 
 She suddsnly stopped, for May's gay laugh 
 was echoed by one far less musical, beginning 
 by a suppressed chuckling, which increased to 
 a screech like that of an enraged peacock, 
 interrupted ever and anon by the words '* sour 
 grapes — sour grapes !" pronounced in a cack- 
 ling, mumbling tone. 
 
 Maud put her hands to her ears, to shut out
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 75 
 
 the discordant sounds, and Arthur started and 
 turned round, looking as much astonished as if 
 he had heard the laugh of a hyena. 
 
 The hideous cause of this disturbance seemed 
 glad to have attracted any sort of notice, and 
 approaching nearer to the window, she said, ad- 
 dressing May, in a patronising tone — 
 
 ^' That's right. Miss May, don't you be over 
 scornful ; pride sooner or later will have its 
 fall— it ever comes, as the parson tells us, be- 
 fore destruction, and mayhap one of these fine 
 days you may chance to pick up something 
 better than grapes which others have thrown 
 away, for what they think finer — May it prove to 
 her," she added, turning a vindictive glance at 
 Maud, " yes I say, may it prove to her as 
 sour as the grapes — and then let her come and 
 feast her great black eyes on your sweets — Miss 
 May honey — and cry them out if she pleases, 
 because she did'nt take them when she could." 
 
 Having delivered this harangue, she gave a 
 E 3
 
 76 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 Satanic ^rin at Maud, and then entered the 
 cottage, banging the door violently after her — 
 Maud shrugged her shoulders with a disdainful 
 smile and answered Arthur's question of — 
 
 '* What can make that old woman so bitter 
 against you, Maud ?" by exclaiming — 
 
 " Oh ! I offended her when I was a child, by 
 some not very civil remarks about her looks, 
 and she, like most very ugly people, being ex- 
 tremely tenacious on the subject, has never 
 forgiven me — you cannot imagine the spite she 
 has against me. She is too contemptible and 
 a little mad besides, or I would not endure her 
 insolence — you can have no idea of its extent 
 at times." 
 
 " And is Mr. Percy to have the pleasure of 
 her company whilst he is here ?" said Arthur, 
 " I should think she would prove an antidote 
 to peace of mind, and equanimity of temper !" 
 
 '' Oh yes ! she will not be induced to take 
 her departure. She is the widow of an
 
 77 
 
 old servant of our grandfather's, who made 
 Papa promise to provide for her ; he therefore 
 allowed her to take charge of the cottage, 
 while uninhabited, of course intending her to 
 turn out whenever it should be occupied ; 
 but some years ago Harry Percy came down 
 to take possession, and found her fighting with 
 his fine valet, positively refusing to leave the 
 premises, and Harry, who always acts from the 
 impulse of the moment, very good-naturedly, 
 but rashly, allowed her to remain. He, I re- 
 member, sometimes jokingly complained, after- 
 wards, that he could not sleep, from fancying he 
 saw her hideous face peeping at him through 
 the curtains of his bed ; and his valet appeared 
 one day, and gravely assured him that the old 
 witch turned the milk sour, and had poisoned 
 his favorite dog because it bit her cat, and 
 ended by declaring that, if he were expected to 
 keep company with an '' evil eye, " he must 
 desire that his wages might be increased."
 
 78 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland had by this time 
 made their appearance, and they all adjourned 
 in a body to find old Judith, in order to break 
 to her the necessity of the cottage being 
 thoroughly cleaned and put in a proper state, 
 for the reception of the visiter who was to 
 intrude upon her solitude. 
 
 They found her in a small back kitchen, 
 cowering by the fire, over which was sus- 
 pended a large cauldron, containing some sort 
 of mess intended for her dinner, which she was 
 watching and stirring up whilst it bubbled and 
 hissed, with the same interest and anxiety as 
 did the famed witches of Macbeth, their 
 strange and charmed concoction. A huge 
 black cat was seated on one side of the hearth, 
 erecting its back and mewing occasionally, 
 whilst it intently observed with its glaring 
 eyes every movement of its mistress, evidently 
 awaiting the completion of the preparation 
 of the meal of which he was to partake.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 79 
 
 Neither the cat nor his mistress looked much 
 pleased at the interruption to their occupation, 
 but, on Mr. Sutherland apologising in a suita- 
 ble manner, Judith • suppressed the dark scowl 
 which had gathered on her withered features, 
 and listened with tolerable graciousness to his 
 commands ; even condescending to relax into 
 a grim smile, or rather grin at some speech 
 of her master in allusion to her former victory, 
 over one of the visiters she was again to ex- 
 pect. 
 
 The black grimalkin also suffered the fair 
 hand of May to pass itself over his wiry back, 
 but whenever Maud approached, it reared that 
 back on high, and furiously glared, and spit at 
 her. 
 
 " He, he, he !" chuckled his mistress, with 
 mischievous satisfaction, as she perceived this, 
 *' Tom's a fine fellow, he can tell what's sweet 
 and what's sour though others can't — can't he. 
 Miss May hinny ?^' and she winked sig-
 
 80 
 
 nificantly at May, with on© of her dreadful 
 eyes. 
 
 The latter laughed ; she thought the old 
 woman was again referring to the story of the 
 grapes, but had she been more observant, May 
 might have discovered, that this speech was 
 partly levelled against Arthur, for her business 
 with Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland having con- 
 cluded, she had since been watching with 
 much displeasure, the pleased and admiring 
 attention, bestowed by the young soldier, on 
 every gesture, every word, of the graceful 
 object of her aversion, while her favourite May 
 was obliged to remain satisfied with only the 
 very flattering notice of the aforesaid black 
 Tom. 
 
 There was nothing to be done towards the 
 arrangement and embellishment of the cottage, 
 till the necessary cleaning had taken place, so 
 the merry party once more bent their steps 
 towards the Manor.
 
 81 
 
 Their conversation turned on the extraor- 
 dinary character of old Judith — her aversion 
 to M-iud — and partiality to the gentle 
 May, who was rallied on the apparent conge- 
 niality existing between the old lady, herself, 
 and the cross black cat. 
 
 The secret however was simply this. Maud 
 when a child — a spoilt beauty — with impulses 
 always indulged, had been kindly offered by 
 Judith, a cake from her yellow, skinny 
 hand. The little girl, after regarding it and 
 the donor for an instant, with a look of 
 supreme disgust, cast it from her. 
 
 Her governess reproved her for her ungra- 
 cious conduct, and the reply was, — 
 
 " I could not eat anything from the hand of 
 one so hideous— Oh, Miss Meyer, how happy I 
 am that I was not born ugly !" 
 
 Judith heard this speech — hers was not a 
 character to forgive an insult, because it hap- 
 pened to be offered by one who was young, rich, 
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 82 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 and beautiful — these advantages rather tended 
 to inflame her hatred, for she grudged her the 
 possession of them. The antipathy of the vin- 
 dictive old woman increased, rather than 
 diminished by time. Maud was not likely to 
 endeavour to conciliate one, from whom she 
 received naught but taunts, and bitter words — 
 she, the idolised both of the rich and poor ! 
 
 May on the contrary was ever on the watch, 
 lest any look, any word should escape from her, 
 which savoured of a consciousness of supe- 
 riority in any respect, and thus by civility 
 " which costs nothing and buys everything," 
 even golden opinions — had excited in the strange 
 being Judith, as much love, as Maud had kin- 
 dled hatred in her distorted heart — and though 
 to the highly favoured heiress, the praise, or 
 censure of a wretched half-crazed creature like 
 old Judith was of little moment, yet the 
 veriest worm will turn, when trampled on — 
 as the fable goes — the lion, the king of the
 
 83 
 
 forest, owed his life to the good offices of an 
 insignificant little mouse. And as the quaint 
 poet Herbert says, — 
 
 " Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree 
 Love is a present for a mighty king 
 Much less make any one thine enemy. 
 As guns destroy, so may a little sting. 
 The ctmning workman never doth refuse, 
 The meanest tool, that he may chance to use."
 
 84 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 *' Love is made of every fine emotion, 
 
 Of generous impulses, and noble thoughts, 
 
 Love is aspiring, yet is humble too, 
 
 It doth exalt another o'er itself, 
 
 With svpeet heart homage." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 The season for excursions for pleasure over lake 
 or mountain, for exploring a country so fertile 
 in loveliness as the neighbourhood which sur- 
 rounded the Manor, was now quite passed, and 
 gone. The variegated foliage of autumn had
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 85 
 
 passed into the sear and yellow leaf, falling at 
 every gust of the November wind, crumbling 
 under the foot of the passenger, or sleeping on the 
 quiet surface of the lake. The summer birds 
 had all departed, but Arthur Balfour still ling- 
 ered in the country. Harry Percy had not 
 yet arrived — the world still held him fast — 
 a few more thousands were to be lost or won, 
 a few more draughts of such amusements and 
 pursuits to be quaffed, in which his existence 
 had been spent, ere, he wrote, " urgent 
 business would allow hi:i) to tear himself from 
 detested London, to refresh his ueary body 
 and mind with the delightful peace of the 
 country, and the charming society of his Suth- 
 erland relations." Though nature had changed 
 her face, the aspect of affairs within the Manor 
 was unaltered. The same merry party gal- 
 lopped over the hills and plains, or climbed the 
 mountains, to gaze on the dark beauties of a 
 winter landscape— the same group partook of
 
 86 
 
 fireside enjoyments, home-bred happiness, and 
 all the comforts, that the hours of long, unin- 
 terrupted evenings afford. But the hearts of 
 all — were they the same ? Do the circling 
 months ever revolve without finding some 
 change in the heart of man? its dearest joys per- 
 chance are fled — a sparkling dream has vanished 
 away, or some feeling, or passion found an en- 
 trance into the heart before unknown. And 
 so was it here. During the last three months, 
 (short indeed did they appear,) two hearts at 
 least, had by degrees suffered a change, but so 
 insidious and gradual were the steps by which 
 the change advanced—that neither of the indi- 
 viduals were quite aware of the alteration in 
 their feelings, until at length the intruding 
 sentiment had obtained full possession of their 
 minds, and it had become too vividly— pain- 
 fully felt, to be longer concealed from them- 
 selves. And then Arthur Balfour began to 
 recognise the spell which had robbed him of his '
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 87 
 
 former unbounded freedom of soul — for never 
 before had he — 
 
 " Made one mortal eye, 
 
 The lonely star of his idolatry" — 
 
 never before had the sound of one voice power 
 to make his own lips tremble, whilst he spoke, 
 or cause his firm heart to palpitate. But was 
 it the proud Maud that had woven this spell — 
 that proud girl ! would she, so easily yield 
 her heart to one, who had never poured words 
 of love and adulation into her ear — from whom 
 she had only received the affection and atten- 
 tion she might have claimed from a brother — 
 the Maud, who had been so sought, so 
 courted? It is more consistent to suppose that 
 the gentle May might have suffered her young 
 heart to be entangled in an attachment, which 
 her innocence had invested with the idea of a 
 sisterly affection. But no, it was not the voice 
 of May, which faltered when she spoke his
 
 88 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 name, she could meet unmoved the gaze of his 
 clear blue eye — her step was as light — her spirit 
 as joyous as when she first saw Arthur at the 
 calm lake's side. 
 
 It was indeed the bright, elder sister whose 
 proud heart had bowed beneath the power of a 
 first love — a love from which at first she 
 earnestly strove to fly, but vainly — and the 
 softening influence of that passion, which " re- 
 fines the thoughts, and heart enlarges," gave a 
 new attraction to her beauty. 
 
 If she had been lovely in Arthur's eyes, in 
 all her pride, and gaiety, how much more 
 beautiful did she now appear, when under the 
 subduing influence of this new feeling. Her 
 lustrous eyes, how much sweeter was their 
 expression, and her rich voice how far more 
 melodious did it sound to his ear, now that a 
 deeper tone of feeling was blended with its 
 music !" 
 
 And Arthur ! why did he not fall at his fair
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 89 
 
 cousin's feet and confess his love ? Why was 
 he so faint of heart, when all seemed to smile 
 upon his love ? He could not have been so 
 blind as to imagine she would frown upon 
 him. 
 
 Another feeling struggled within the heart 
 of the young man — a feeling partaking both of 
 pride and honour ! 
 
 Honour suggested — " Who is it I love ?*' — 
 the answer came, 
 
 '^ The rich heiress of Sutherland Manor !" 
 and poor Arthur remembered their relative 
 situations. She, for whom her parents might 
 have justly expected an exalted destiny ; and 
 he, a comparatively poor relation ! It was 
 indeed a painful reflection, and was he to 
 abuse the hospitality — the unfailing kindness 
 of his friends? was he to frustrate their 
 dearest hopes, by intruding his love upon the 
 gifted Maud, by endeavouring to engage her 
 affections ?
 
 90 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 Pride suggested, " What will the world 
 say ? Arthur Balfour going to marry an 
 heiress ? He had his wits about him, and 
 was wiser than we thought, when he left the 
 gaieties of London to ruralise in Cumberland ; 
 a golden bait allured him to the seclusion of 
 Ullswater. She is a monstrous spec — he has 
 played his cards well — he has certainly won 
 his heiress !" 
 
 " I must leave Sutherland," he mentally ex- 
 claimed, after he had distracted his mind by 
 such thoughts, — " I must leave Sutherland — I 
 must not have such base — such sordid 
 motives attributed to an attachment which 
 Heaven knows ! is disinterested — is pure — 
 Oh ! that she were poor !" 
 
 But though he resolved upon taking his de- 
 parture, the spell which bound him to the 
 spot, was too potent ; and week after week 
 found him still at the Manor. His manner 
 towards Maud however changed, his words
 
 THE gambler's WIFE 91 
 
 grew cold, his demeanour restrained and em- 
 barrassed ; he carefully avoided finding himself 
 alone with her, in whose society he had hitherto 
 walked and rode, in free and happy confidence. 
 
 His conversation was now addressed ex- 
 clusively to May — by her side he walked and 
 rode. 
 
 And Maud, she saw all this and wondered ! 
 Was she to be thus shunned — thus thwarted ? 
 She the delight of all hearts ! — had her charms 
 failed to inspire love to one, who had possessed 
 himself of her young afiections ? What could 
 be the cause ? Had her pride — her caprice 
 disgusted him ? but no, she had scarcely 
 ever given vent to these failings in his pre- 
 sence. Oh ! that she had been less kind — less 
 amiable ! Why had her usually invinci- 
 ble heart, at so early a period of their ac- 
 quaintance, been led thus willingly captive ? 
 
 And for a time her spirit drooped under the 
 agonising thought, that hers was unrequited
 
 92 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 love. But not for long was Maud cast down, 
 hers was not a spirit to—* 
 
 " Let concealment like a worm i' the bud, 
 Feed on her damask cheek, nor pine in thought, 
 And with a green and yellow melancholy, 
 To sit like patience on a monument 
 Smiling at grief." 
 
 No ! she raised her drooping head, and re- 
 solved to investigate the matter, and learn the 
 whole truth, and if she found her love had 
 been wasted on one who did not value and re- 
 turn it — to call it back, and tear it from 
 her heart, cost what it might. 
 
 A pang shot through her frame at the 
 first glance she gave into her heart. It wa^ 
 May on whom were now lavished the smiles — 
 the words of cordiality — of affectionate re- 
 gard, of which she was wont to receive so 
 large a portion; had she been supplanted by 
 her gentle, unobtrusive sister ? She even 
 remembered with a mournful sensation, her 
 jealousy of Arthur's attentions to May, in
 
 93 
 
 their infantine days — of mirth and unalloyed 
 happiness. 
 
 But no ! a second glance and she was 
 satisfied on that point; she gave a third — 
 a long, steady, scrutinizing inspection, and 
 then a thrilling sensation shot through her 
 heart, and told her that she was beloved ! 
 and she smiled once more, her own proud, 
 beautiful smile, at her blindness in having 
 mistaken the embarrassed air — the faltering 
 voice — the averted eye, for ought but the 
 love of one, who fears to shew that love. 
 
 '* And why does he fear ? Oh coward ! does 
 he think I love him not ? "Well, let him 
 fancy it, the uncertainty will make him prize 
 it more, when he is convinced that it is 
 within his grasp." 
 
 How long Maud would have persevered in 
 the apparent gay carelessness which she 
 again assumed, proudly rejoicing in the new- 
 born conviction, that she had complete power
 
 94 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 over the heart of Arthur Balfour, we know 
 not — suffice it to say, that after having in- 
 flicted many a pang, for the pain his cow- 
 ardice (as she termed it) had made her suffer, 
 circumstances once more turned her own 
 weapons against herself.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 95 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 " Oh there are evil moments in our life, 
 When but a thought, a word, a look, has pewer 
 To dash the cup of happiness aside. 
 And stamp us -wretched." — 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 It was one of those rainy afternoons, so 
 prevalent at that season of the year, but 
 though gloomy was the appearance of the 
 weather, the young people rather hailed with 
 satisfaction, an occasional thoroughly wet day
 
 96 THE gambler's wipe. 
 
 — a day sufficiently stormy to preclude all 
 hesitation, whether to go out or not — Maud and 
 May were always provided with resources, 
 which rendered them independent of circum- 
 stances, but certainly they had never enjoyed 
 dark, wet days so truly, as since the 
 arrival of Arthur Balfour. He would sing, 
 he would converse, as they wandered for ex- 
 ercise through the long picture galleries, look- 
 ing as lovely with their flowing ringlets, as 
 the representatives of the far famed Sir Peter 
 Lely, by which they were surrounded. 
 
 Merry and musical, rang the echo of the 
 glad young voices through the lofty vestibule, 
 when Arthur perchance challenged his fair 
 companions to a trial of skill at battledore 
 and shuttlecock, and how proudly did Maud 
 exult over poor May, when, one lucky day, 
 she kept up the strokes to a far higher num- 
 ber, than her usually more successful rival 
 had ever yet reached. And as she stood on 
 the dark oak floor, breathless from her late
 
 THE gambler's WIFE 97 
 
 efforts, her graceful form erect, her classical 
 head thrown back, her cheek flushed to a 
 bright crimson, she looked indeed the very 
 emblem of majestic beauty. 
 
 Young men and maidens beware ! for even 
 at the simple game of battledore and shuttle- 
 cock, hearts may be lost and won ! 
 
 Then again as the slender fingers of the 
 sisters, traced the flowers on their embroidery 
 frame, Balfour would entertain them with 
 tales of his travels in foreign lands, or with his 
 voice, " clear, symphonious, yet distinct," read 
 aloud some new publication. 
 
 But on the present day, Maud and May sat 
 quietly in their mother's boudoir, the former, 
 apparently so intently occupied with 
 
 " The wreath that cannot fade," 
 
 which she was working on the canvass, that 
 she noted not the pattering rain, which beat 
 against the window, nor did she seem to desire 
 any interruption to the deep silence, which had 
 for some time reigned in the room. 
 
 VOL. I. F
 
 yb THE GAMBLER S WIFE. 
 
 But the eyes of May often wandered, and 
 she frequently paused in her work, to listen 
 for the accustomed footstep, the usual tap at 
 the door, which a short time ago, would have 
 been heard long ere then, and at last she 
 exclaimed, looking towards her sister, 
 
 " I wonder why Arthur does not come to 
 read to us." 
 
 No answer — a short pause Ensued, and then 
 May continued — 
 
 '' Shall I go and call him ?" 
 " Oh certainly not," replied Maud hastily, 
 '^ I suppose he is more agreeably engaged — 
 however, just as you please — I am going to 
 sing." 
 
 And as if awakened from a profound reverie, 
 by her sister's voice, she pushed back her 
 frame, rose from her seat, and walked to the 
 window ; then after gazing for a moment on 
 the dreary scene without, moved towards the 
 door. 
 
 '^ Dearest !" said Mrs. Sutherland, raising
 
 THE gambler's WIFE 99 
 
 her eyes from the letter she was writing, 
 will you bring me, from the library, the second 
 volume 01 Scott's Life ? I feel weary, even 
 after the slight fatigue of bending over my 
 paper. This weather disagrees with me. I 
 shall lie down on the sofa presently,, and per- 
 haps, good, little May will read to me." 
 
 Maud smiled, nodded assent, and left the 
 room, and we must follow her into the Gothic 
 library, with its oak panelled walls, covered 
 with pondrous tomes of ancient lore, and 
 volumes innumerable of modern literature. 
 Mr. Sutherland and Arthur Balfour were 
 there, busily engaged in writing letters, the 
 latter seated in the embrasure of an oriel 
 window. They both raised their eyes when 
 the door opened, and a light step was heard. 
 Mr. Sutherland gave a fond smile at the in- 
 truder, who walked across the room to a tier 
 of books, her graceful head erect. Her arm 
 was extended to reach the volume she sought, 
 which was placed high above her, and in brins- 
 p 3
 
 100 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 ing it down she also disarranged, at least a 
 score of others, which fell to the ground, 
 creating no slight noise and confusion. 
 
 On first entering the room, Maud had cast 
 a furtive glance on Arthur as she passed him, 
 and an arch smile played on her dimpled 
 cheek as she did so, but he had returned 
 it, with one very sad, and as she turned 
 towards the book-shelves, he had resumed his 
 pen, and continued his writing. 
 
 However at the noise of the falling books he 
 started up, and Maud, who having watched 
 the downfal, with a half-frightened, half- 
 amused countenance, at length exclaimed — 
 
 '* There, Mr. Balfour ! now I have given you 
 some work to do for me ; at least, if it will not 
 interfere with the very agreeable and absorb- 
 ing occupations which have engaged you all 
 day." 
 
 " Agreeable !" he murmured in a low, mourn- 
 ful tone, as he stooped down to raise the fallen 
 books, " far, very far from being ngreeable !" 
 ,' Then why continue them ?" she replied,
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 101 
 
 " I never do anything I find disagreeable." 
 
 " Duty to oneself and to others, sometimes 
 forces an unfortunate man to do what is very 
 repugnant," was the grave answer, pronounced 
 in the same suppressed voice. 
 
 She looked at him for a moment, with a 
 puzzled air, but then said laughingly, 
 
 " Oh ! I suppose that is a hint, that I 
 should assist you in the disagreeable duty of 
 picking up the books, but as you are so duti- 
 fully inclined to-day, I shall leave it all to 
 you ; for it is anything but agreeable to me, 
 either to break my back by stooping, or to 
 hear a sermon — Mr. Merton dines here to-day, 
 so we can have plenty of preaching this even- 
 ing if we desire it." 
 
 And she turned to depart, but stopped when 
 she reached her father's side, and kissing his 
 forehead playfully said, 
 
 " There ! I have performed one piece of duty 
 at any rate, which is not very disagreeable to 
 me. 
 
 Mr, Sutherland laid down his pen, anrl
 
 102 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 passing his arm round her waist, fondly re- 
 turned the kiss. 
 
 '^ Do not leave us," he said, '' What — you 
 must ? — this is too bad ; you come in — disturb 
 us, by doing as much mischief as possible, and 
 then you run away !" 
 
 " Mamma is waiting for her book," replied 
 Maud. 
 
 " If you had come half an hour sooner, you 
 naughty little girl, instead of harm, perhaps 
 you might have done good," continued her 
 father ; *' you might have persuaded that gen- 
 tleman," and he looked towards Balfour, '* not 
 to commit a very ungracious act." 
 
 '* What ! the duty of which he has just 
 been boasting so heroically ?" 
 
 " I cannot think there is much duty in the 
 case. Arthur has written to his uncle," and 
 Mr. Sutherland took up a letter directed to the 
 
 Earl of B , *' announcing his intention of 
 
 paying him a visit in Herefordshire on Satur- 
 day next, and from thence proceeding south-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 103 
 
 wards to some other friends. Now you 
 know he certainly promised not to desert us till 
 after Christmas." 
 
 No answer did Mr. Sutherland receive, and 
 he continued, 
 
 " He is a very shabby fellow ; he knows I 
 shall require his sevices, to help to entertain 
 Harry Percy, who will be here next week. I 
 am half inclined now, to throw the letter into 
 the fire, but he is so obstinate on the subject, 
 that I fear he would only write another. 
 What do you say about it Maud, shall we ven- 
 ture to burn it ?" 
 
 Still there was no answer ; the little hand 
 which had been pressed within her father's 
 during this speech, became so cold that he 
 looked into her face, and started with alarm 
 on seeing that the colour had fled from her lips, 
 and her eyes were fixed upon him, with a trou- 
 bled, bewildered expression ; he felt too, that 
 her frame trembled violently. 
 
 He was on the point of anxiously enquiring
 
 104 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 if she were ill, when a sudden thought flashed 
 through his mind ; he therefore refrained, and 
 kissing her again, even more fondly, he gently 
 said — 
 
 " Well ! I see you are impatient to take the 
 book to your mother, I will not detain you — 
 go dearest !" 
 
 And Maud left the room, her step as firm, 
 her head as erect, as when she entered it. 
 
 Arthur had returned to his seat in the 
 recess, before the words of Mr. Sutherland had 
 been spoken ; his back was towards them, but 
 he had listened almost breathlessly for an 
 answer from Maud ; he heard with agonizing 
 suspense the pause which succeeded her father's 
 communication ; and when at length he ven- 
 tured to turn his head, he only caught sight of 
 her fluttering garments, and the closing of the 
 door. Mr. Sutherland did not resume his pen 
 for some time, but, with his head resting on 
 his hand pondered deeply. 
 
 Towards dusk the weather improved, and
 
 105 
 
 the two gentlemen left the house together, for 
 a short walk before the half hour bell rang, 
 but there was now a slight restraint visible in 
 the deportment of Mr. Sutherland towards his 
 companion. Balfour was fully aware of this, 
 and though wholly unconcious of the cause, it 
 struck a pang into his heart ; almost in silence 
 he walked by the side of his host, and returned 
 to the Manor anything but happy.
 
 106 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 CHAPTEE X. 
 
 " Mightier far 
 Than strength of nerve, or sinew, or the sway 
 Of magic potent over sun and star 
 Is love, though oft to agony distrest, 
 And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast." 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Maud quitted the library with the sinking 
 heart of one, who, by a few words, had felt her 
 hopes crushed — her happiness dissipated. — 
 With a strong effort however, she strived to 
 assume an air of calmness, until she had fulfilled
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 107 
 
 her mission ; with a steady step she entered 
 her mother's boudoir, laid the book on the 
 table, and then almost unperceived by her 
 parent, or sister, again quitted the room. 
 Stunned by the suddenness of the recent 
 shock, she could, at first, scarcely collect her 
 scattered senses ; she paused and leant against 
 the hall table for support, and with eyes dis- 
 tended, and lips apart, strove to recal all 
 that had occurred. 
 
 The painful reality soon came rushing back 
 into her heart, and with it the full conscious- 
 ness of all her misery. 
 
 She could have thrown herself on the 
 ground, and wept aloud in agony, but startled 
 by the sound of footsteps approaching, she rushed 
 to the drawing-room door, entered — and flinging 
 herself into a large arm chair, buried her face 
 in her hands, while tears — burning tears 
 trickled throuo;h her finders. 
 
 " He is going — yes he is going ! — cruel, un- 
 grateful Arthur — and without telling me he
 
 108 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 loves me ! — I cannot^ I will not endure the 
 shame— the misery of loving one, who spurns 
 — who despises me. /, who by one word 
 might bring, many a lover to my feet — and I 
 have thus to debase myself — to weep for the 
 cruelty of a mere boy — yes, a mere boy," she 
 repeated with angry scorn. — " But oh Ar- 
 thur !" she continued in a softened tone, 
 " there is more nobility — more that is valuable 
 in your young mind, than can be claimed by 
 any of the titled, wealthy, frivolous world- 
 lings, who, for my fortune, flocked around me, 
 and although at this moment I would gladly 
 hate you, I cannot — it is impossible — where — 
 where is my pride ?" And again she buried 
 her face in her hands, to hide her burning 
 blushes. It was long ere she again removed 
 them, the violence of her emotion seemed to 
 overpower her, but she suddenly started up — 
 a new thought appeared to have revived her. 
 
 " I know you love me Arthur," she ex- 
 claimed, " yes, or think you I should not
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 109 
 
 have strength — pride, sufficient to tear you 
 from ni J heart — a Sutherland — and thus 
 demean myself ! No, I am certain there is 
 some reason," she continued after a pause, 
 " some scruple in his generous heart. You 
 fear, Arthur, my parents would refuse to give 
 you their heiress. Oh proud Arthur ! am I 
 not worth the venture — deserving the sacrifice 
 of a little pride ? — however it is but natural — 
 it is a bitter feeling to be spurned — rejected ! 
 — but for the sake of a little false delicacy you 
 shall not go, when one word — one little word 
 from me, or from my father— for my father 
 would not — should not refuse him — !" and the 
 young beauty's eyes flashed fire, and she 
 stamped her small foot, at the very idea of her 
 will being disputed — Yes," she continued to 
 think aloud, " I will go to my father, I will 
 tell him all — it is thus that Queens are com- 
 pelled to act, and for once I must be the 
 Queen I" 
 
 She rose, as if intending immediately to ex-
 
 110 
 
 ecute her resolution, but her heart seemed to 
 fail her, and after pacing the room several 
 times with agitated rapidity, she once more 
 sunk despondingly into the arm chair, to ponder 
 further on the step she was to take. 
 
 The sound of the first dinner bell rang on 
 her ears, but she did not move ; she scarcely 
 heeded the entrance of a servant, who placed 
 a lamp on the table, stirred the already 
 blazing fire into a still brighter flame, and then 
 departed. 
 
 At length however she was roused from her 
 meditations, by hearing the door open, and 
 looking up, she saw Arthur Balfour ! 
 
 He did not see her, though he passed close 
 to her on his way to the fire place ; he rested 
 his elbow on the mantel-piece, and remained 
 for a few minutes in deep meditation. And 
 once Maud almost fancied she saw him brush a 
 tear from his manly cheek — he certainly sighed 
 deeply — mournfully ; at last he drew from his 
 pocket a small morocco case, opened it, and
 
 Ill 
 
 gazed upon its contents. It was a little gold 
 ring, with a single, though very fine diamond, 
 and had belonged to his mother ; he had long, 
 anxiously, desired to place it on the finger of 
 one of his cousins, and had ventured once to 
 express this wish to Maud, but she gave him 
 no encouragement ; it was on one of her days 
 of tyranny, and she coldly replied — 
 
 '' I have a diamond ring. — Papa gave me a 
 beautiful hoop, last birthday !" 
 
 But she now felt a thrill of joy, at the idea 
 of receiving any gift from his hands — of listen- 
 ing to the words of kind affection, which 
 assuredly would accompany it ; and though 
 her heart beat almost audibly, she bent for- 
 ward, and softly murmured, 
 
 '' Arthur !" 
 
 He started and coloured, as if he had been 
 detected in some unlawful deed, but drawing 
 near her, he said, gazing with some surprise at 
 her dishevelled tresses, and flushed cheeks, on 
 which the traces of tears were still visible.
 
 112 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 " I had no idea you were in the room — I 
 brought down this little ring, in the hope that 
 May would give me the pleasure of seeing her 
 wear it before — I— leave — since — !" 
 
 He paused, for Maud had suddenly risen 
 from her seat, and turned her large, dark eyes 
 full upon him, while the blood rushed in 
 torrents to her fair face, even to her temples, 
 and the hand with which she tightly grasped 
 the arm of the chair, trembled violently. At 
 length her pent up feelings burst forth. 
 
 " May !" she exclaimed, " why is it always 
 May ? and why is Maud to be slighted — 
 avoided— despised ? tell me the reason Arthur ; 
 answer me, I command you," and she strove to 
 throw more fierceness, and less of tenderness, 
 into the expression of her speaking coun- 
 tenance, but in vain ; glistening drops would 
 start, and quench the fire of her flashing eyes, 
 and in a softened, agitated tone she ex- 
 claimed, — 
 
 '' I have not been accustomed to such treat-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 113 
 
 ment Arthur, never before have I been con- 
 strained to ask— to ask any one to — not to hate 
 me, but — but— you are going to leave us, and 
 I would not — would not part so coldly. I 
 have been ungracious, no doubt capricious — 
 but surely not sufficiently so to make you hate 
 me." 
 
 " Hate you !" cried Arthur in great agita- 
 tion. 
 
 " Yes indeed, Arthur," interrupted Maud, 
 speaking rapidly, incoherently, '* I did not in- 
 tend to drive you from those with whom you 
 profess to be so happy — I am the cause of 
 your departure, for to me only are you 
 changed — to me, who thus humble myself to 
 ask you not to hate me ; I who till now, cared 
 nought for love, or hate, save from my parents 
 — my sister !" 
 
 Again poor Arthur, half beside himself, 
 with amazement, joy, and agitation, would 
 fain have spoken, but his impetuous companion
 
 114 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 continued to pour forth her excited feelings, in 
 a torrent of words. 
 
 " I have learnt to value your friendship 
 Arthur, and I would not willingly forfeit it, — 
 Oh, we were so happy, and now I am so 
 miserable, tell me then before you go, how I 
 have offended you — why you hate me ?'* 
 
 She sank back into the chair, at last, ex- 
 hausted, and covered her burning face with 
 one hand, while the other was seized and 
 pressed to the heart and lips of him, to whom 
 her words were addressed. No longer was he 
 silent — he was beloved — could he doubt it ? 
 — therefore what should — what ought to pre- 
 vent his declaring his love ? 
 
 And he did declare it ; on his knees he 
 poured forth the history of his love — his doubts 
 — his scruples — his wretched fears ! 
 
 " Yes dearest, sweetest, loveliest !" he 
 added, " your dear words have broken the 
 chain, which so long bound me to silence — I
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 115 
 
 dared not to say, that I aspired to your affec- 
 tion, superior as you are to me in every way— -so 
 richly gifted — so bright — so beautiful — but I 
 adore — I worship you. Nay one little word 
 more, one kind word to assure me you forgive 
 my presumption." 
 
 Like one, who by the touch of some magic 
 spring, has suddenly set some mighty machine 
 in motion, sat our heroine — petrified at the 
 effect her power had produced. She almost 
 unconsciously suff'ered him to remove the hand 
 from before her face, to place on it the little 
 ring — to press it again and again to his lips 
 — and then once more she strove to speak — 
 But what she would have said was interrupted, 
 for at that moment the door was thrown open, 
 and a servant announced " Mr. Merton !" 
 
 Like a startled deer she sprang up, darted 
 through an opposite door, flew up the wide 
 staircase — along the gallery — and reaching her 
 own room, sunk on a chair, her eyes fixed.
 
 116 
 
 as if in a dream, on the sparkling gem on her 
 finger, till suddenly there came a shower of 
 tears, and then a proud, happy smile, like a 
 bright gleam of sunshine after rain. 
 
 The maid had left the apartment to seek 
 for her truant young lady, and May, ready 
 dressed for dinner, was seated by the fire read- 
 ing, she turned her head on her sister's 
 entrance, and for a moment was lost in amaze- 
 ment, in witnessing the unusual emotion 
 betrayed by her. 
 
 She approached, and throwing her arm 
 around her neck, affectionately kissed the 
 flushed cheek, and at the same time, May's 
 eyes were attracted by the sparkling ring upon 
 her finger. The colour mounted to her face, 
 and for a moment there was a pause, but in the 
 next, she again embraced her sister, and bury- 
 ing her face in the bosom of Maud, ex- 
 claimed, 
 
 *' Ah, so you have stolen my ring, you 
 naughty sister !"
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 117 
 
 And Maud felt that she was weeping. She 
 pressed May in her arms, and calmly related 
 all that had occurred, and when the latter 
 again raised her face, her eyes were beaming 
 as bright with happiness as those of the joy- 
 ful Maud. 
 
 A headache was the excuse she made for 
 her sister's absence from dinner, and Arthur 
 saw by the smile she gave him, that she knew 
 all. 
 
 He was grave and silent as he sat beside 
 her, and so was Mr. Sutherland — Mrs. Suth- 
 erland and Mr. Merton, had nearly all the con- 
 versation to themselves. 
 
 Immediately after the long and weary 
 repast, tedious to all, save the good clergy- 
 man, Mrs. Sutherland hurried to her child's 
 apartment, where she found her lying on 
 the sofa, looking so joyous — so blooming — 
 chatting gaily with Mrs. Power, who as she 
 said, ** after sending in her dessert, had just
 
 118 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 stepped up, with a cup of strong coffee for 
 her dear young lady," that the relieved 
 mother, after playfully chiding her for the 
 unnecessary alarm she had caused, insisted 
 upon ringing for her maid to smooth the 
 ringlets, which were floating rebelliously 
 over her neck and shoulders, in such wild 
 disorder — and [then, leaning on the arm 
 of the fair girl, they descended to the drawing- 
 room. 
 
 There they found Mr. Merton who had 
 made his escape from the dining-room, in 
 order to have a little chat with Mrs. Suther- 
 land on parish matters. 
 
 With what changed countenances, did Mr. 
 Sutherland and Arthur Balfour appear, when 
 in about an hour they entered the Saloon. 
 They were pictures of perfect happiness ! 
 All fear — every scruple had vanished; the 
 declaration of Arthur's love, had not only been 
 sanctioned — approved, but welcomed — joy-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 119 
 
 fully received by the father of his beloved, 
 who indeed by its avowal, beheld the prospect 
 of the fulfilment of his dearest wishes. 
 
 It was joy to the mother —joy to them all ! 
 The young lovers most assuredly looked 
 upon the past moments of doubt and fear, 
 now changed into smiles and happiness as — 
 
 " Emblems of hope and love, through future years." 
 
 Gladly would Arthur have recalled the letter 
 to his uncle, but as this could not be, he was 
 obliged, most reluctantly, to leave Sutherland 
 Manor, to pay his promised visit to the Earl. 
 In a few days he departed — only a fortnight 
 however elapsed before he again found him- 
 self by the side of Maud. 
 
 The parents were anxious, that the young 
 people, should know more of each other before 
 any regular engagement took place ; but 
 Arthur Balfour was pacified by receiving a 
 promise, that should the affections of both
 
 120 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 stand the test of some months' trial, he should 
 obtain, ere he joined his regiment in the spring, 
 a formal assurance of receiving, at a fixed 
 period, the hand of the beautiful Maud.
 
 121 
 
 CHAPTEK XL 
 
 " He was a man 
 Versed in the world as pilot in his compass, 
 
 —and he spread his saOs 
 
 With vantage to the gale of other's passion." 
 
 L. E, L. 
 
 It was on a clear, frosty afternoon just two 
 days before Christmas, that a travelling 
 carriage dashed furiously through the quiet 
 little village of— , bringing hosts of vil- 
 lagers to their doors to gaze upon it, as it 
 
 VOL. I, G
 
 122 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 whirled past, followed by the noisy shouts of 
 numerous little urchins, and the barking of 
 every little dog in the place, from the butcher's 
 large mastiff, to Mrs. Hazell the applewoman's 
 half-bred, spaniel puppy — all was curiosity and 
 commotion in this usually quiet spot, 
 
 " A visiter to the Manor !" w^as the uni- 
 versal surmise, and the Britscha did stop at 
 the massive iron gates, which were instantly 
 thrown open wide, by a silver haired old 
 woman, but it entered not the park. 
 
 The consequential looking valet on the 
 rumble, merely delivered a brief message, and 
 the inside passenger putting out his head, on 
 which he wore a graceful looking, black velvet 
 travelling cap, nodding familiarly and good 
 humouredly, cried out in an elevated tone, 
 
 '^ A merry Christmas, Mrs. Grove ! how 
 are you my good lady ? Bless me, as fresh 
 and good looking as ever — a perfect ever- 
 green ! The family well at the Manor ? All's 
 right ! — get along boys — precious cold it is !"
 
 123 
 
 and hastily pulling up the glasses he laugh- 
 ingly muttered, " The old woman is as deaf as 
 a post — no use wasting powder and shot 
 upon her, at any rate." 
 
 The post boys once more cracked their 
 whips, the horses darted off, and skirting the 
 palings of the park, they crossed the fenced 
 carriage path on the common, and then 
 drew up before the rustic porch of ''Percy 
 Castle/' 
 
 The steps were let down, the traveller 
 sprung from the carriage, and was heartily 
 welcomed by Mr. Sutherland and Balfour, 
 who in shooting costumes stood ready to re- 
 ceive him, and whilst Judith and a pretty 
 damsel (a pleasing antidote to the old crone) 
 bustled out to assist " the gentleman's gentle- 
 man," to unburthen the carriage of the carpet 
 bags, heavy dressing case, and large, leather 
 writing desk, &c. &c., Arthur Balfour, who 
 accompanied Mr. Sutherland, was introduced 
 in due form to the renowned Harry Percy, of 
 G 3
 
 124 
 
 whom he had heard so much, and who now 
 shook him warmly by the hand, and expressed 
 great pleasure in making his acquaintance. 
 They entered the comfortable, little sitting- 
 room, and whilst he warmed himself by a 
 blazing fire, the newly arrived looked about 
 him with an air of extreme satisfaction. 
 
 *' Well, upon my word this is snug !'^ he 
 exclaimed, " but what trouble you must have 
 taken on my account; you see I was deter- 
 mined at all events to eat my Christmas dinner 
 with you — I cannot tell you how charmed I 
 am, to find myself here at last — thought I 
 never should have got out of town — never 
 should have managed it !" 
 
 *' I suppose London is empty now," said 
 Balfour. 
 
 '' Not a soul in it,'' Percy replied, '' and 
 what with the tiresome business with which 
 I was engaged, and the infernal fogs, I thought 
 1 should have died of it ; as it is I am extremely 
 ill. How fresh you look old fellow !" he con-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 125 
 
 tinued with great animation, giving Mr. 
 Sutherland a hearty slap on his back, " upon 
 my honour, no one would take you for ten or 
 fourteen years older than myself— quite mar- 
 vellous ! — all well at home ?" 
 
 Mr. Sutherland could not say they were all 
 well ; he shook his head when he spoke of his 
 wife's weak state of health. 
 
 ** Ah yes, I am indeed grieved to hear how 
 delicate Mary has become — dear Mary ! — 
 Well ! she and I must nurse each other — can't 
 possibly be worse than I am — I assure you it 
 is true— -perfectly true — a complete wreck — 
 quite done up ! But by the bye, what is your 
 dinner hour ? Seven — well, you may expect 
 me, and I'm as hungry as I have ever been after 
 the longest run ; better for the country air 
 already, I shall go and dress instantly." 
 
 It was but a short walk to the Manor, across 
 the park, and in bad weather a bed or a car- 
 riage, was always at his disposal ; and Harry 
 Percy promised to become a regular guest
 
 126 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 at the dinner table. Though denominated a 
 fine gentleman, he certainly was not of that 
 class of modern dandies, who fear a little 
 wind and weather, and who, as Mr. Sutherland 
 remarked to Balfour on their way home, '' take 
 such especial care of their persons, that it 
 might be imagined they were composed of no 
 more durable, or waterproof material than 
 silver paper, or, as the nursery song declares, 
 
 " Of sugar and spice, 
 And all that's nice." 
 
 Arthur laughed at this philippic of his com- 
 panion, who continued, 
 
 " You may laugh, but I assure you my 
 poetry is very applicable to the subject ; it is 
 disgusting to witness the extent to which self-* 
 indulgence has reached amongst the young 
 men of the present day, it seems indeed that 
 their own ease and gratification are the sole 
 aim of their lives ; even in the most trivial 
 matters, the foible creeps out. Enter a
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 127 
 
 modern drawing-room, and instead of the 
 profound respect formerly paid to the aged, 
 you will now see, the merest boys indolently 
 lounging on the most luxurious couches, or 
 reclining on the easiest arm chairs before the 
 fire, whilst their elders and superiors are 
 obliged to content themselves with any chance 
 seat which the impudent puppies may have 
 rejected. The era of gallantry is also gone 
 by, for even the presence of the fair sex is no 
 longer a check to this species of selfish im- 
 pertinence. Often have I blushed to see a 
 delicate young girl, in a ball-room, weary with 
 dancing, remain standing nearly a whole 
 evening whilst some dandy — too fine — too 
 lazy, or too stupid to join in the waltz, or 
 quadrille, has never (excepting perhaps at 
 supper time) stirred from the bench on 
 which he has been stretched half asleep — 
 half awake, all the night through. Now 
 Harry Percy's manners are, and ever 
 have been perfect. In society he must ever
 
 128 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 shine pre-eminent, and I fully believe that to this 
 undeviating politeness and easy, good breed- 
 ing — his empressement to anticipate the wishes 
 of those around him — his being, in short, as 
 the French so well express it " toujoui^s aux 
 pieds des dames ^^^ he owes a great part of that 
 unbounded popularity which he enjoys amongst 
 the softer sex, who so greatly appreciate that 
 charm of manner which he so peculiarly pos- 
 sesses. But the dressing bell rings and here 
 we are at home, so my eloquence must cease 
 at present."
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 129 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 " Full many a lady 
 I have eye'd -with best regard ; and many a time 
 The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage 
 Brought my too delighted ear, for several virtues 
 Have I liked several vs^omen ; never any 
 With so full soul, but some defect in her 
 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd ; but thou 
 So perfect, and so peerless, art created 
 Of every creature's best." 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 When Arthur Balfour entered the drawing- 
 room before dinner, he found Mr. Percy 
 already arrived and standing before the fire, 
 chatting with his uncle and aunt. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland was but a few years older 
 G 5
 
 130 
 
 than Percy, and he was associated in her mind 
 with all her earliest recollections. She had been 
 left an orphan at an early age, and was brought 
 up and educated in the house of her half sister, 
 who had married the wealthy Mr. Percy. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland had tenderly loved Harry 
 Percy from the infant to the school-boy, from 
 the school-boy to the man, and her sweet face 
 beamed with pleasure at now again seeing him 
 — her thoughts flew back to former years ; and 
 she could not but believe that he was the same 
 warm-hearted, affectionate being he was wont 
 to be, when she gazed on his frank, bright 
 smile — his soft expressive eyes ! — was it possi- 
 ble that the canker-worm of vice, should have 
 blighted and destroyed the beauties of his soul 
 and mind ? No it could not be ! 
 
 Arthur also thought, '* Can this be a con- 
 firmed roue^ a ruined gamester ?" 
 
 Maud and May at this moment entered — 
 Harry Percy hastened to meet them, and May 
 received from him the same warm embrace,
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 131 
 
 to which she had been accustomed from her 
 childhood, but whether it were that Maud 
 drew rather coldly back as she extended her 
 hand to greet him, or that he was too much 
 occupied in gazing at her beautiful face, he 
 contented himself with merely pressing her 
 hand affectionately in his. Arthur felt a thrill 
 of satisfaction pass through his frame on per- 
 ceiving this, and turned a grateful, well- 
 pleased smile on Maud, as she advanced to 
 his side. He was not however at all offended 
 by the admiring attention with which Percy 
 fixed his eyes upon her. Who could look 
 unmoved upon her matchless beauty ? he 
 thought, as with pride swelling in his heart, 
 he used the acknowledged lover's privilege, 
 of gazing without disguise on every feature of 
 her face — every graceful movement of her 
 form — whilst she, with a conscious, blushing 
 smile, calmly submitted to the scrutiny. 
 
 Harry Percy had turned his attentions to 
 May, who was quietly listening to him as he
 
 132 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 told her, how much she was grown, since they 
 had met, and by the smiling glances of his 
 speaking eyes, expressed as fully as if he had 
 pronounced it, in direct terms, how lovely 
 she had become. 
 
 At dinner Balfour was fascinated with the 
 brilliant powers of conversation displayed by 
 the new guest, and yet there was nothing in 
 it very deep, or striking, but it was as spark- 
 ling and exhilarating in its effects on those 
 who listened, as the champagne he so freely 
 quaffed ; calling up bright smiles on every 
 face as he rattled on, now gaily — now with 
 energetic earnestness — then with deep feeling, 
 according to the subject in discussion. 
 
 Percy began to rally Maud with mock 
 seriousness on her London success — on her 
 cruelty to her victims, in leaving them so ab- 
 ruptly as she had done, describing in so droll 
 and lively a manner, the dismay and disappoint- 
 ment her sudden departure had wrought on 
 some luckless aspirants, that though at first
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 133 
 
 she strove to frown, she ended by laughing 
 heartily with the rest. 
 
 He then dropped his tone of laillery, and 
 with real earnestness, besought them, now that 
 May was of an age to be presented, to rejoice 
 the London world once more by their pre- 
 sence ; they were, he said, (begging pardon 
 for the staleness of the quotation) " flowers 
 too fair, * to waste their freshness in the desert 
 air.'" 
 
 *' It would be, I think but short lived fresh- 
 ness if transplanted to London," interrupted 
 Maud, laughing rather scornfully. 
 
 " Ah ! very good ! — that I know is a cut at 
 my faded, yellow face — very severe I must say, 
 though—" 
 
 '* Oh no !" said Maud laughing, "• you look 
 well enough now, far better than when I saw 
 you in London, for then you were very — 
 very — " 
 
 '* Seedy ^ I suppose you mean." 
 
 '* No, for I hardly understand what such
 
 134 
 
 an expression is intended to convey, but you 
 were certainly not a good specimen of the 
 freshening powers of London." 
 
 " Ah ! very true — upon my word you are 
 rather hard upon me — I see I must take 
 care what I say to you in future, Miss Suther- 
 land, but I suppose I was pining with envy at 
 seeing others flocking round a bright star 
 which I dared not approach." 
 
 " Well you did assuredly keep at a profound 
 distance, I must own." 
 
 " Of course, of course ! the attentions of an 
 old fellow like me, and a cousin too, would 
 have been very much de trop, when so many 
 handsome young men were in the case ; I 
 make a point never to interfere, when such 
 is the state of affairs — would'nt presume to 
 do so." 
 
 " Oh !" continued Maud carelessly, and 
 curling up her lip, '' you need not have been 
 afraid — you would only have been treated like 
 the rest — one more added to the list would
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 135 
 
 have made little difference ; you would have 
 sunk into the same scale with the others I dare 
 say, and not have been remarked !" 
 
 *' And shared the same fate," he gaily ex- 
 claimed, not at all disconcerted by this uncom- 
 plimentary speech, rather different from the 
 treatment he was accustomed to receive from 
 rosy lips ; there was however an arch expres- 
 sion in his eye, as he went rattling on in the 
 same animated tone. 
 
 Arthur thought him no less agreeable when 
 the ladies rotired ; however he soon left him 
 tete-a-tete with Mn Sutherland, concluding 
 that he must have many subjects to discuss, 
 and he wa^ too glad of an excuse to join the 
 party in the saloon. 
 
 Had he suddenly returned to the dining- 
 room he would have been startled — amazed ! 
 for he would have seen all the bright, spark- 
 ling gaiety, which had so captivated him, totally 
 vanished from the face of the fascinating Harry 
 Percy, and in its place the wretched, care-
 
 136 THE gambler's WIFfi. 
 
 worn, harassed countenance of one, who with 
 bitter energy gave the details of his ruined 
 fortune, his blighted prospects ! and with re- 
 morse and despair related the story of the dis- 
 graceful meshes into which his unbridled, un- 
 conquerable passion had entangled him ; and 
 Mr. Sutherland, though willing to compassion- 
 ate and assist the unhappy man, could scarcely 
 restrain feelings of anger and contempt, at the 
 detail of vices and weaknesses which had pro- 
 duced such lamentable results. 
 I But he knew how worse than useless would 
 be admonition or reproach ; the die was cast — 
 he could but sorrow over the most melancholy 
 of all spectacles, a splended specimen of the 
 Maker's works — lost to himself — lost to his 
 friends, and still more appalling to the idea, in 
 the present state of his heart — lost to his 
 God! 
 
 Again however, it was the gay, smiling 
 Harry Percy, who some short time after, was 
 seated by the side of Mrs. Sutherland, and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 137 
 
 with subdued cheerfulness questioned her with 
 affectionate earnestness on the state of her 
 health, and called up bright smiles to her face 
 by expatiating on the subject most dear to her 
 — her children ! — dwelling on their beauty — 
 particularly on the loveliness of Maud, and ex- 
 pressing himself with the warm, though calm 
 interest of an old and anxious friend. He 
 then reverted to the days of their mutual child- 
 hood, and added with a subdued expression, 
 pressing the hand of Mrs. Sutherland in his — 
 
 " Though changed, sadly changed since 
 those happy times, dear Mary, one feeling of 
 my heart must ever remain the same — ever un- 
 altered — my love — my gratitude to you, who, 
 from the moment of my birth, have been my 
 dearest, and best of friends." 
 
 At length music was asked for by Mr. 
 Sutherland, and as Maud walked to the in- 
 strument followed by Balfour, a thought 
 seemed to strike the quick, observing eye of 
 Harry Percy ; something of a serious nature
 
 138 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 was evidently going on in that quarter he saw 
 at once, and after a moment's scrutinizing 
 glance at the lovers, he bent towards Mrs. 
 Sutherland significant looks, and in a low 
 voice questioned her on the subject. At first 
 he was answered only by the smile, but she 
 ended by confiding to his attentive ear, the 
 whole history of the prospect of an engagement 
 between Maud and Arthur. 
 
 A long pause ensued. — Harry Percy seemed 
 absorbed in thought, and he spoke not for 
 some moments. 
 
 Whether from vanity, which made him 
 tenacious of commanding especial observation 
 and consideration, in short of being the chief 
 object of attraction, or that he thought engaged 
 lovers threw a sort of restraint over society in 
 general, certain it is, that Harry Percy had 
 ever expressed an inveterate antipathy to their 
 presence, and always said to a female relation, 
 who till her death presided over his establish- 
 ment at .
 
 THE gambler's WIFE, 139 
 
 " Invite whom you like, and as many as the 
 house will hold, only pray let us have no en- 
 gaged couples, I cannot stand them, for of all 
 the bores in the world they are the greatest. 
 I would ten thousand times rather have 
 twenty old women here, nuisances as they 
 are, than one pair of acknowledged lovers — to 
 flirtations I can have no possible objection !" 
 
 Perhaps some idea connected with this feel- 
 ing crossed his mind, during the pause, which 
 followed Mrs. Sutherland's communication ; he 
 however soon rose and joined the party at the 
 piano-forte, and was ere long making himself 
 very agreeable to his cousins ; and though it was 
 midnight ere Harry Percy departed, the 
 evening passed very swiftly to all the party. — 
 Harry Percy was so agreeable, so delight- 
 ful ! Before they separated for the night how- 
 ever, (as is ever the case, on the departure of 
 an unfortunate individual from a family circle) 
 the new visiter was talked over, his merits 
 and demerits were canvassed.
 
 140 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 Balfour was charmed with his new acquaint- 
 ance and declared that his powers of fascination 
 even exceeded his expectations. 
 
 '* Oh Arthur !" said Mr. Sutherland, " you 
 are only like the rest of the world ; few escape 
 from the irresistible captivation of his man- 
 ners — that outward gloss which I fear has swal- 
 lowed up all the inward merit of poor Harry's 
 character. It is very sad to witness the wreck 
 of so naturally fine a mind — the effects of an 
 evil course of life. When in his society, I 
 own I can never help loving him, and de- 
 lighting in his presence, although I know the 
 feeling is morbid." 
 
 *' Might not Mr. Percy still be turned from 
 his present career ? is it not possible, that by 
 forming new ties, his pursuits and his habits 
 might change, and cause his mind to incline to 
 better things ?" continued Balfour ; " remem- 
 ber the old saying, ' A reformed rake often 
 makes the best husband.' " Mr. Sutherland 
 shook his head.
 
 141 
 
 *' God forbid," he exclaimed, '' that any one 
 I love should ever make the trial. A woman 
 must indeed be bold to risk her happiness, 
 for the mere chance of her attractions and 
 influence, alluring the selfish, corrupted heart 
 of a worldling^ from the vices and follies he 
 has hitherto worshipped, especially a gambler • 
 her love and welfare would soon be of less im- 
 portance in his eyes than the turn of a die, 
 or the speed of a horse, for such is the occu- 
 pation and aim of his life. Love is but a 
 secondary consideration, Arthur — an amuse- 
 ment !" 
 
 . '* But, my dear sir," interrupted Balfour, 
 '* we know what miracles a real attachment 
 has in many instances wrought." 
 
 '* My dear fellow you argue like a young 
 and inexperienced man, but you know not 
 Harry Percy — do you suppose he would be 
 long satisfied with the attachment of one 
 devoted heart, when all his life he has been 
 accustomed to the idolatry of so many. — No !
 
 142 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 delightful as Harry Percy appears to the out- 
 ward eye — rather than see a daughter of mine 
 become his wife, I would follow her to her 
 grave, for there would be peace for her in 
 death, but not as the wife of Harry Percy — 
 of a Gambler !" 
 
 They were all silent for some moments, 
 there was something in Mr. Sutherland's man- 
 ner and tone, whilst pronouncing the last 
 words, that chilled all their hearts. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland however soon ventured a 
 word in behalf of her absent favourite. 
 
 '^ One little word of extenuation however, 
 I must say in favour of Harry Percy," she 
 exclaimed, '* whatever may be his faults, he 
 still retains the reputation of being strictly 
 honourable and straightforward, and certainly he 
 is possessed of generous and liberal sentiments ; 
 he has fallen a victim to the greedy and subtle 
 sharks by which he has been surrounded." 
 
 Mr. Sutherland smiled, but sadly, and then 
 murmured to himself.—
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. l43 
 
 " But how difficult it is to persuade the 
 world of the honour of a Gambler /" 
 
 Well might Mr. Sutherland have thus ex- 
 claimed, could he have read the thoughts 
 which passed through Harry Percy's mind, as he 
 bent his way across the park, with the keen, 
 frosty air blowing on his face, and the pure, 
 bright stars twinkling above his head. 
 
 '' Maud Sutherland is decidedly the most 
 splendid creature I have seen for a long time," 
 he soliloquised. " If she created a sensation 
 in the world, a year ago, when her beauty had 
 not arrived at perfection, what would she now 
 do— and still more in a few years ? — and that 
 lucky young dog Balfour is to be the possessor 
 of this bright, lovely girl, who looks with scorn 
 on all save him^ — who baffled all the most prac- 
 tised hands in London ! By Jove, I don't half 
 like the fellow ! I hardly know which 
 becomes her most, the proud, contemptuous 
 glance of those glorious eyes, or the tender, 
 melting air, which they assume, when she
 
 144 
 
 speaks to or looks at him. He must be a clever 
 fellow to have managed so well — opportunity 
 — nothing like opportunity ! — And yet. Master 
 Balfour," he said half audibly, '' I should like 
 to try how soon I could unseat you from your 
 exalted pinnacle ! She is worth a little 
 trouble— how superior to all the women I have 
 made fools of ! It will be no easy task ; I shall 
 have all her pride and love against me, but 
 courage Harry Percy, you have very seldom 
 failed ! It will be an amusement and excite- 
 ment whilst I am here, and will help to pass 
 away time. Yes I will try, I am determined — 
 so garde a vous, fair Maud ! or rather, Arthur 
 Balfour, look sharp after her heart — it is now 
 yours, my boy — but there is no telling how 
 long it may so remain !" 
 
 And again he quickened his pace, and per- 
 sued his way, exulting in his project, without 
 bestowing one single reflection on the happi- 
 ness he might crush — the hopes he might 
 destroy — or the wrong — the sin — he was about
 
 145 
 
 to commit, in trifling \a ith the feelings and affec- 
 tions of an innocent young girl, the daughter of 
 the friend, who throughout his whole life had 
 loaded him with benefits, and for whom, not an 
 hour before, he had professed the utmost grati- 
 tude and affection — and all for what ? the mere 
 gratification of vanity, pride, and selfishness. 
 
 He reached the door of the cottage, it was 
 open, and taking a candle from the hand of 
 his servant, he hurried up stairs, and was soon 
 in bed ; there to dream of Maud Sutherland, 
 and the treachery he was meditating against 
 the peace of Arthur Balfour. 
 
 VOL. I.
 
 146 
 
 CHAPTER XIIL 
 
 " Life now is life — 'tis bliss indeed — 
 
 A scene of fascination ; 
 
 And eyes that weep and hearts that bleed. 
 
 Seem spots in the creation — 
 
 We think that every coming day 
 
 Will still be calmer— brighter ; 
 
 That hope's gay wings will grow more gay, 
 
 And life's light chain still lighter !" — 
 
 Ddncan Grant, 
 
 Christmas was always a happy season at the 
 Manor and its environs. The poor tasted 
 largely of the bounty of their patron, and 
 blessings were invoked on the heads of that 
 family, who, indeed, humbly endeavoured to
 
 147 
 
 further one of the designs of their great 
 Master's advent — '' Peace upon earth and 
 good will towards men." 
 
 Christmas was also a merry time at Suther- 
 land ; the customs and gambols of ancient 
 days, now nearly obsolete, were still retained 
 at the Manor. 
 
 The tenants and domestics were feasted on 
 barons of beef and ale, in the great hall de- 
 corated with holly and evergreens, and there 
 Christmas sports and dancing went on, often hon- 
 oured by the presence of the superiors of the 
 house ; and the stately Maud andthedelicateMa}-, 
 might often be seen, all smiles and affability, 
 mingling in the dance with a sturdy farmer 
 as their cavalier, or, the refined Harry Percjy, 
 and the gallant young soldier, gaily footing it 
 away with pretty country damsels, in their 
 stuff gowns, and coarse, gloveless hands. 
 
 No other company was ever invited during 
 this season ; Mr. Sutherland wished it to be as 
 much as possible a holiday to his servants, 
 H 3
 
 148 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 therefore their occupations were not encreased 
 by guests in the drawing-room. Three weeks 
 however after the arrival of Harry Percy, 
 carriages began to roll along the broad avenue 
 the door of the Manor, and successions of visiters 
 were day by day welcomed by its inmates. 
 
 The two young lovers did not derive the 
 advantage which a large party in a country 
 house often affords. Two hearts may be more 
 closely drawn together in a crowd, and there 
 enjoy more real communion with each other, 
 than in a small domestic circle ; they fancy 
 themselves less observed, less commented upon 
 — even at the noisy dinner-table, where every 
 tongue is busy, every eye occupied, soft 
 glances may be then safely exchanged, sweet 
 words ! heard only by the one, for whom they 
 are exclusively intended. 
 
 But Maud had a conspicuous part to play, 
 for her mother's health rendered her incapa- 
 ble of any exertion, and she was obliged to 
 take her place on every occasion Arthur
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. 149 
 
 Balfour soon found that he must make up 
 his mind not to expect much individual 
 attention from her. He however bore the 
 deprivation very manfully ; it was a new de- 
 light to see her move about — 
 
 " The star of the goodly company—." 
 
 to hear the whispered remarks and exclama- 
 tions on her beauty — her grace ! and to know 
 that he would one day call her his — his own ! 
 — to think — to feel that his smile — his admira- 
 tion were alone prized. Arthur Balfour was 
 at this moment far too happy, to murmur at 
 the attentions, which his beloved was in cour- 
 tesy called upon to devote to the guests of the 
 Manor — all seemed bright to him, all joy, 
 peace and future happiness ! 
 
 It very soon became evident to all, who 
 was the fortunate being that had obtained 
 the rich prize. More than one of the assem- 
 bled party, had come with hopes beating
 
 150 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 high in their hearts, and speedily were thej 
 laid low, by the composed indifference with 
 which their advances were received. 
 
 Eyes were now turned to the paler star, the 
 fair May, whose quiet grace and beauty, to say 
 nothing of her large fortune, were to some 
 almost as attractive, as the still brighter charms 
 of the heiress ; but the naive simplicity with 
 which she received attentions and adulation, 
 was equally discouraging to their hopes and 
 expectations. 
 
 And how did Harry Percy amuse himself all 
 this time ? 
 
 He reported himself on the invalid list, 
 and consequently seldom joined the sports- 
 men, who sallied forth very early to make the 
 most of the short time that remained of the 
 shooting season ; but an hour or two before 
 luncheon, he generally made his appearance in 
 the drawing-room, where his presence was 
 always hailed with pleasure by the several
 
 THE gambler's wife. 151 
 
 ladies there assembled — and under cover of 
 music, which was always going on, he contrived 
 to make as much havoc, as the sportsmen in 
 the woods. — True, his shots chiefly consisted of 
 a word, or a look ; but from him they were as 
 powerful in their effects, as whole volleys of 
 fire from any other quarter. 
 
 Harry Percy was certainly unrivalled in 
 dexterity and skill, and a great part of this 
 skill consisted in the art he possessed, of making 
 each fair one in turn believe that to her alone 
 these soft words and glances were directed. 
 
 Walks and drives filled up the afternoon, 
 and then the ladies retired to their rooms 
 to dwell upon the honeyed words, the bewitch- 
 ing compliments of the all fascinating Harry 
 Percy. 
 
 And he always at this hour adjourned 
 to Mrs, Sutherland's boudoir, and seated before 
 a bright, cheerful fire with her and her daugh- 
 ters, passed, what he denominated, the hour 
 of the day worth all the rest.
 
 152 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 " How delightful — how reviving I" he 
 would exclaim, " after the nonsense, the folly, 
 I am forced to talk all the morning, in 
 order to make myself agreeable, in obedience 
 to your orders, Maud, to be allowed the entre 
 to this little nest of peace, and to sit with 
 those I so dearly love — to be able to say 
 what I really think, to throw off all disguise, 
 and artificial sentiments, which with those sort 
 of people, one is forced to assume — and to 
 allow oneself to be natural and at ease.— Oh \'^ 
 if I had always had such society to fly to, 
 I might have been what, alas ! — I am not 
 now !" 
 
 It was thus Harry Percy would speak, whilst 
 a deep melancholy diffused itself over his 
 countenance, and into his wonderfully expres- 
 sive eyes, and he would rest his forehead 
 on his hand, and remain for some time 
 apparently buried in painful thought : even 
 Maud, in these moments could not forbear a 
 feeling of pity, for one who seemed formed for
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 153 
 
 all that was good and attractive, and who 
 proved so striking an instance of a blighted 
 character. 
 
 It often happened that Mrs. Sutherland, 
 more exhausted and fatigued than usual, retired 
 to the quiet of her own dressing-room, and the 
 trio were left to themselves. Harry Percy 
 would then exert himself more than ever to be 
 agreeable, and whether gay or sad, he always 
 succeeded in making the time pass pleasantly 
 and quickly away. 
 
 He frequently spoke of Arthur Balfour, but 
 as if ignorant of the affaire de coeur between 
 him and one of his listeners ; sometimes how- 
 ever a significant glance of his speaking eyes, 
 directed at May, plainly told her that he knew 
 more than he would fain make them suppose. 
 He always showered the warmest praises on 
 Balfour, though there often mingled with his 
 commendation, a tinge of something, which 
 neither of the sisters particularly liked— a sort 
 H 5
 
 154 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 of patronising tone, never used unless towards 
 a person considered beneath one. This had 
 often caused the proud blood of Maud to 
 mount to her face, and fire to flash from her 
 indignant eyes — but May wondered she was 
 so patient — that her sister, who possessed so 
 little of the spirit of forbearance, and endu- 
 rance in general, should submissively suffer him 
 to asume such a tone and manner towards 
 one, whom she considered in every respect, 
 second to no man save her father. 
 
 Once Harry Percy ended some encomium 
 on Arthur, by saying he was a person who 
 would be greatly improved by a little more 
 knowledge of the world. Maud was silent, 
 but May, contrary to her custom, undertook to 
 speak for her sister, and became Arthur's 
 champion : with kindling eyes and glowing 
 cheeks she exclaimed—- 
 
 " The world ! what do you mean, Harry 
 Percy ? You seem to forget that Arthur has
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 155 
 
 not only seen our world, but the new world — 
 he has beheld two worlds, whereas your expe- 
 rience extends only to one ; and, from your own 
 account Harry, the knowledge of that has — 
 has — " she hesitated for she was not accus- 
 tomed to say severe things, and blushing at 
 her own enthusiasm, suddenly stopped short 
 in her speech. 
 
 Maud smiled and simply said — 
 
 ** Arthur ought to be very grateful to you, 
 May, for so warmly advocating his cause." 
 
 " You are quite right, May, perfectly right," 
 exclaimed Percy in his usual rapid manner, but 
 in a saddened tone, " my ivorld^ as you say, has 
 done me little good. —Heaven grant that Arthur 
 Balfour, or any one you esteem, may be pre- 
 served from its baneful influence ; hitherto he 
 has not been exposed to the snares of the 
 world — its temptations ! and therefore he has 
 escaped its dangers — but even were he now 
 exposed to these dangers — " and here Harry 
 Percy sighed and paused, " he has, lucky
 
 156 
 
 fellow ! an invincible safeguard — the armour 
 of loving hearts around him. — I was far less 
 fortunate on my first entrance into the world. 
 — I was only surrounded by the cold — the 
 subtle — and I am therefore what you now see 
 me !'^ and he paused and fixed his eyes on 
 Maud, as if he would fain have read in hers^ 
 what she thought of him — in what light he 
 appeared to her imagination— Was it as the 
 irresistible— the fascinating — the delightful 
 being, he was well aware he was considered 
 by most of her sex — or was she comparing him 
 with her handsome young lover — with his 
 frank, noble heart — his unblemished character 
 — his ardent love — his soul untainted by the 
 world, that world in which he had moved ? 
 
 Percy could at length almost flatter himself 
 that the former feeling prevailed, for the proud in- 
 difference with which she had at first treated 
 him, seemed to be gradually fading away. — But 
 then, ii Arthur's step or voice was heard, her 
 eyes would {^parkle — her cheek flush, and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 157 
 
 she would receive him with a smile, which 
 would assuredly have laid low the hopes of any 
 less experienced, less successful conqueror of 
 hearts, than Harry Percy. 
 
 It was in his society that Arthur Balfour 
 usually found Maud, when, after a separation of 
 some hours, he would hasten to seek her in her 
 mother's boudoir. Harry Percy was generally 
 by her side, though he never failed to relinquish 
 his seat to the new comer ; he however seldom 
 quitted the room, but would engage Mrs. Suther- 
 land, or May, in an animated conversation, which 
 never terminated till the dressing bell rang. 
 
 This was annoying enough to Balfour ; he 
 thought that after an absence of a great part 
 of the day, spent in assisting her father to 
 amuse his guests, it was hard, that he might 
 not enjoy at least an hour's tete-a-tete with 
 his beloved. He had so many questions to 
 ask — so much to say, which must be whispered 
 to her ear alone. But it would not continue long 
 — a few days and the month would terminate,
 
 158 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 and the visiters depart. Then he would have 
 all his time to devote to her only, and no one 
 to monopolise her attentions but himself ; and 
 this idea gave him unbounded joy, and enabled 
 him to endure with patience the annoyances of 
 the time being.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 159 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 " Away !— -I do condemn ray ears, that hast 
 So long attended thee.— - 
 Thou wrongs't a gentleman."— 
 
 Shakspeare 
 
 It was the last evening — the party at the 
 Manor was about to separate on the following 
 day^ and right glad were some hearts amongst 
 them, that so it was to be. 
 
 And the host himself rejoiced that they were
 
 160 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 to be alone— for with alarm and grief he saw 
 that the exertion and excitement his wife had 
 unavoidably undergone, had weakened and ex- 
 hausted her; and the invalid, on her part, could 
 not disguise how ardently she panted for the 
 quiet and peace of their family circle. 
 
 " Come and take a stroll with me, Balfour," 
 said Lord Percival, as they left the dining- 
 room the same evening. He was the son of 
 Lord Balfour, and consequently cousin to 
 Arthur. 
 
 It was a clear, moonlight night, innumerable 
 stars bespangling the ht^avens, and seizing the 
 arm of his relation, the young lord led him 
 throusjh a glass door on to the terrace. 
 
 A perfect calm reigned without, the stillness 
 being alone broken by the merry voices of the 
 company within, which reached the ears of the 
 two young men, as they sauntered past the 
 drawing-room windows. 
 
 '* Now I would wager my existence, Bal- 
 four," was Lord Percival's first remark " that
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 161 
 
 you would twenty times rather be gazing on 
 your Venus — on the star of your idolatry in 
 that room, than on the planet Venus, shining 
 so brilliantly, so gloriously above your head ?" 
 
 This was not contradicted. 
 
 " "Well, I feel no scruple in detaining you a 
 short space, as I leave you to-morrow to bask 
 in all its brightness, without interruption I 
 hope. I could not take my departure, my dear 
 fellow, without congratulating you on what 
 you appear to wish to keep so profound a 
 secret. Why, I know not, unless indeed you 
 fear being shot through the brains by half a 
 hundred w^ould-be rivals — but you need not 
 fear me, and to set your mind at ease I will 
 confess that your goddess from the first, was 
 too dazzling for my weak sight." 
 
 Arthur smiled proudly. 
 
 '' Ah !" he continued, " I see by your face 
 that you are thinking of the fable of the fox 
 and grapes — but no — I own that my heart has 
 been subdued by the softer, milder rays of that
 
 162 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 pale star by her side. But," he added laugh- 
 ingly, as he raised his eyes to the glittering 
 firmament, '' that same little star is Mars, I 
 believe, which is therefore a shockingly inap- 
 propriate simile — so in plain terms, leaving as- 
 tronomy and astrology, I must confess, that if 
 the pretty May did not look so coldly kind 
 upon me, I should be very much tempted to 
 fall at her feet, and offer her my hand and 
 heart." 
 
 " I admire — I laud your taste, Percival ; you 
 will indeed be a most fortunate man, if you 
 succeed in gaining the affections of so perfect a 
 being as May Sutherland." 
 
 And Arthur in a moment had erected a 
 fabric in his imagination, based on the union, at 
 some future time, of his two cousins. 
 
 It was not to every one that he would thus 
 joyfully have bestowed his sweet sister, as he 
 already called her ; but he loved and esteemed 
 Lord Percival, and warmly expressed his sincere
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 163 
 
 wishes for his success in winning the fair 
 prize. 
 
 *' I did not bring you here however," re- 
 sumed the young lord, " to speak of my own 
 hopes and affairs, but of your prospects, Bal- 
 four ; therefore give me the authority to con- 
 gratulate you, by confessing (I will keep your 
 secret if it be one) that you are engaged 
 to her," and he again smiled a merry smile, 
 
 * Whose eyes are loadstones and her tongue sweet air.' 
 
 (as you were singing to-day,) and whose — 
 
 ' Sunny locks hang on her temple like a golden fleece.' 
 
 How can I adequately describe her perfec- 
 tions ? — in plain terms tell me, however, Arthur, 
 are you not engaged to the rich and most 
 beautiful heiress of Sutherland Manor — come, 
 confess — confess my dear fellow !" 
 
 Balfour hesitated — he would willingly have 
 proclaimed his happiness, but he hardly knew 
 whether he was justified in so doing, unsanc-
 
 164 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 tioned by Mr. Sutherland, who had n5t given 
 him permission to make it publicly known ; 
 however he felt sure that his cousin did not 
 ask the question out of mere curiosity but from 
 real interest in his welfare, he therefore ended 
 by fully disclosing to him the exact situation of 
 affairs, existing between himself and Maud — in 
 short the whole history of their love. 
 
 ^^ Not absolutely engaged ?" was his listen- 
 er's comment, when Balfour had concluded his 
 story, and there was a tinge of disappointment 
 in his voice. 
 
 " Not exactly ! I have just told you so," 
 said Arthur impatiently, " not yet, but in a 
 few days it will be decided." — 
 
 '' Yes, yes !" interrupted Percival, " I un- 
 derstand," and there was a change in his 
 countenance that puzzled Balfour. 
 
 A pause of several [minutes ensued, broken 
 at length by the young lord's demanding abr 
 ruptly —
 
 185 
 
 ** How long, bye the bye, has Percy been 
 staying here ?'' 
 
 *' About seven weeks," was the reply. 
 
 *' How long does he remain ?" 
 
 " As long, I believe, as he finds it agreeable, 
 or rather as long as his aflairs render it neces- 
 sary that he should lead a retired life." 
 
 Lord Percival gave a long, expressive whis- 
 tle, which seemed to comprise more meanings 
 than one. 
 
 '* I iuiagine from what I hear," he con- 
 tinued, " that he will have more difficulty in 
 arranging his affairs than any one is yet aware 
 of, and in my opinion he might just as well 
 have taken his departure for the Continent at 
 once, for mark my words ere long, he will be 
 obliged to do so. But tell me Balfour, do you 
 not think it rather extraordinary that Mr, 
 Sutherland, the personification of honour and 
 uprightness, should countenance and appa- 
 rently patronise such a man as Harry Percy ? 
 there would be nothing remarkable in other
 
 166 
 
 people doing so, but for more reasons than one, 
 it seems to me an instance gf great inconsis- 
 tency on the part of our excellent host." 
 
 " Indeed !" said Arthur, '' I quite differ 
 from you — I see nothing extraordinary in one 
 so benevolent and kind as my uncle, striving to 
 aid, when in trouble, and receiving into his 
 house, a nephew, who, with the exception of 
 one unfortunate propensity, is far superior to 
 most men we meet with, in the ordinary 
 course of society —he is, at any rate, generous 
 — honourable !" 
 
 '' Well 1" replied Percival, " far be it from 
 my wish to deteriorate from any man's good 
 name — to cast the first, stone — but I fear if 
 you asked his creditors, they would tell you a 
 very different story — mais ce rCest pas mon 
 affaire.''^ Percival paused and then in a grave 
 tone continued, " I will without further hesi- 
 tation^say at once what may startle you, Bal- 
 four, but pray believe that it is kindly meant. 
 Many blame Mr. Sutherland for introducing
 
 THE GAMBLEB's WIFE. 167 
 
 into his house, on such familiar terms with his 
 beautiful daughters, the most dangerous man, 
 the most experienced flirt in England. — I 
 assure you the world censures him very much." 
 
 " Pshaw !" exclaimed Balfour contemptu- 
 ously, though the colour mounted to his tem- 
 ples, " let the world mind its own business 
 — Mr. Sutherland can take care of his daugh- 
 ters, and they, let me tell you, are not formed 
 of such flexible materials, as to yield their 
 hearts to every smooth tongued coxcomb who 
 approaches them. The icorld will soon hear, 
 that there is indeed one fortunate man, who 
 has secured the heart of the beautiful Maud, 
 and," he added with vehemence, " let him w^ho 
 would seek to rob me of the precious treasure, 
 beware !" 
 
 Lord Percival made no reply to this enthusi- 
 astic speech of his young cousin, and Balfour 
 continued. 
 
 '' Percival, you look as dismal and serious, as 
 if you suspected that May's coldness towards
 
 168 
 
 you arose from Percy's fascination; can this 
 really be the origin of the tirades with which you 
 have been treating me ? ah my lord," he added 
 in a jesting tone, '* beware of jealousy, it is a 
 greene-yed monster." 
 
 *' Balfour !" exclaimed Percival, " time is 
 passing quickly, our absence will be observed, 
 and beautiful as is the night, I begin to feel 
 frost bitten, so I must at once come to the 
 point. — I would not needlessly alarm you, I 
 would merely advise you to keep your eyes 
 wide open — it is not on the heart of that sweet 
 creature, your youngest cousin, that I fear 
 Harry Percy will try his skill — there is a 
 child-like simplicity about her — a calmness of 
 demeanour which will prove her safeguard ; 
 there is no chance of his stooping to seek the 
 violet when so bright a rose is blooming before 
 him," 
 
 He paused, for Arthur Balfour had grasped 
 his arm, and in an agitated and indignant voice 
 exclaimed, —
 
 169 
 
 *' Percival ! if you have grounds to justify 
 your thus cruelly darkening my mind with 
 foul suspicion, for mercy's sake, do not thus 
 seek for enigmatical terms to express your 
 meaning, but tell me at once what they are, 
 and by the bright heavens above ! — but no — it 
 is too absurd — too ridiculous to convert the 
 familiar affection of a cousin, and one so much 
 older than herself, into an attempt to possess 
 her heart — and besides Percy knows too well, 
 that her affections are bestowed on another — 
 that her love is sanctioned by her parents, to 
 whom he is bound by such deep obligations — 
 who have received him in misfortune — assisted 
 him in trying difficulties — Percival," Balfour 
 continued in an Agitated and indignant voice, 
 *' I should really have imagined an honourable 
 man like yourself, incapable of harbouring such 
 an unjust — such a cruel suspicion !" 
 
 Lord Percival shook his head doubtingly, as 
 if to express how much his friend had yet to 
 learn of the world, and its perfidy, and then 
 
 VOL. I. I
 
 170 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 again he spoke — with great tact and caution 
 striving to rouse his excited listener only suffi- 
 ciently to induce him to be wide awake, 
 without torturing his soul with jealousy. He 
 let young Balfour fully into the real character 
 of Harry Percy, told him of the whispered 
 hints he had overheard amongst the guests, 
 particularly from the ladies, who are by far 
 the most acute in detecting such proceedings, 
 that if Balfour wished to be the only competi- 
 tor for the hand of the beautiful Maud, he 
 would do well to look about him. — That the 
 affection of cousins is ever a convenient designa- 
 tion ; any one at a glance could detect in the 
 attentions of Harry Percy to Miss Sutherland, 
 a less careless gallantry — a deeper meaning in 
 his manner towards her, than that which he 
 bestowed so openly on other fair ones. Lord 
 Percival also added that he had heard some of 
 the men insinuate, that Harry Percy might 
 now put his powers of fascination to a better 
 use than that of merely gratifying his vanity
 
 171 
 
 -— that he might not merely aim at the heart, 
 but at the gold, which would so conveniently 
 repair his shattered fortuoe. 
 
 Much more did he say, and Arthur listened 
 with a scornful smile, as if he thought that 
 Harry Percy was more sinned against than 
 sinning ; but the young lord did not tell him 
 that hints were also thrown out that though 
 whe 1 Balfour was present she smiled sweetly 
 upon him — yet when he was absent, she con- 
 soled herself with the attentions of her perhaps 
 less handsome — yet from his practised powers 
 of adulation — more dangerous cousin — and 
 looked no less graciously upon him. 
 
 Lord Percival would not — could not tell him 
 this ; he could not find it in his kind, warm 
 heart to inflict so severe a wound, and besides, 
 he felt that most likely these remarks were 
 unfounded — were the suggestions of envy, 
 malice, and uucharitableness — or perchance of 
 mere idle gossip — he only felt that it was his 
 bounden duty to put his j'Oung cousin on his 
 I 3
 
 172 
 
 guard — for Arthur Balfour, noble and honora- 
 ble himself, could scarcely imagine vice in 
 others. He considered that he had per- 
 formed his duty, and would now leave Arthur 
 Balfour to act according to his own discre- 
 tion, and to look after his own interest. 
 
 The latter laughingly thanked him for his 
 caution — in a strain and manner however 
 which showed that he could scarcely appre- 
 ciate its value. He felt so strong — so confi- 
 dent in the love, which so nobly, generously 
 — yet humbl} glowed in his pure, unsuspicious 
 heart, that he weighed that of Maud in the 
 same balance as his own. He proudly thought, 
 
 '' Such love as ours ! — is it possible for 
 any circumstance to alter — any human being 
 to overthrow and destroy ? — no never — never ! 
 death alone can separate us — till then our love 
 will endure — sweet, lovely Maud I am thine — 
 thine only — and thou art mine for ever !" 
 
 " Come," said Percival, interrupting his 
 reverie, '* let us return to the house we ; have
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 173 
 
 been sometime absent from the party, and shall 
 
 be quizzed for being star-gazers ; some may 
 even accuse us of being moon-struck ; so quick 
 — quick my good fellow to the house. I am 
 sure you will gladly exchange the light of the 
 moon, for that which, to your eyes, is so far 
 brighter — the — 
 
 ** Light that ne'er can shine but oj*c« 
 On life's dull stream."
 
 174 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTER X.V 
 
 ** Many were lovely there ; but of that many 
 Was one who looked the loveliest of any." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 " A THRONGING scene of figures bright" pre- 
 sented itself to the dazzled eyes of the young 
 men when they entered the drawing-room, 
 on their return from their moonlit ramble. 
 Lord Percival observed the hurried, anxious
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 175 
 
 glance, which his cousin cast on the numerous 
 groups scattered over different parts of the 
 room, till they fixed on the one bright spot 
 where rested his beloved, and though there 
 were many other beautiful women in the room, 
 yet they might have exclaimed with somewhat 
 of truth — 
 
 " Like a snowy dove trooping with crows, 
 So yonder lady o'er her fellows shows." 
 
 She looked indeed like a young queen as 
 she sat in a large, ancient, tapestried chair, 
 placed at the entrance of a recess at the farther 
 end of the room facing the door, and which 
 was nearly filled with choice plants, shrubs, 
 and flowers, from the conservatory ; just above 
 the spot a lamp was suspended, and shed its 
 silvery light over her person. 
 
 Maud was clad in a simple dress of the 
 whitest crape ; no ornament decked her head, 
 save that which nature had so liberally be-
 
 176 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 stowed —her luxurious hair descending on her 
 fair neck in long, shining ringlets. 
 
 Before Lord Percival and Balfour entered^ 
 she had been the centre of a knot of gentle- 
 men, but they had dispersed, and she remained 
 in her conspicuous situation attended by one 
 alone — who was leaning over the back of her 
 chair conversing earnestly, whilst she, with a 
 pleased, attentive air, listened to his w^ords. 
 
 Arthur Balfour remained for a moment 
 leaning against a marble table near the door, 
 with his coffee cup in his hand. He did not 
 wish to shew Percival that his warning had 
 affected him with painful feelings — but true it 
 was that the iron had entered his soul — his 
 happiness was gone, for he began from that 
 moment to doubt ! 
 
 Balfour would not however allow to himself 
 that his mind had received a shock which 
 staggered it. He fancied that his friend's eyes 
 must be now upon him, watching every 
 variation of his countenance ; thereforcj though
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 17? 
 
 lie felt an earnest desire to find himself at the 
 other end of the room, at his rightful post, 
 which another had usurped — though he longed 
 to ask her how her eyes could sparkle so brilli- 
 antly upon any other but himself? and how 
 she could smile and look so gay, and listen 
 with such apparent interest to the words of 
 another ? he with a strong effort restrained 
 himself, and addressed some trivial remark to 
 an old lady seated near him, which immedi- 
 ately elicited from her a long story of which 
 he heard not a syllable, but judging by his 
 silence that he was intently interested, she 
 was no ways disheartened in her powers of 
 loquacity. 
 
 Lord Percival read his thoughts, and imme- 
 diately after their entrance, turned from him, 
 and seated himself by the side of May, scru- 
 pulously avoiding even looking at his per- 
 plexed relative. 
 
 May received Lord Percival with a kind 
 smile, and began immediately to enquire where
 
 178 
 
 he and Arthur had been so long — and then for 
 the first time perceiving the latter, she fixed 
 her eyes on him for a moment, then directed 
 them towards her sister, and when she again 
 looked at Arthur, there was an anxious glance 
 on her usually placid countenance. 
 
 Lord Percival took note of all this. 
 
 " You have something to say to Balfour, I 
 am sure," he exclaimed. 
 
 She slightly blushed and replied : 
 
 '' Oh no ! at least it was only that my sister 
 was enquiring for him just now." 
 
 But at that moment Mr. Sutherland ap- 
 proached the subject of their discourse, and 
 said in a low tone : 
 
 *' Why Arthur ! we thought you were 
 lost ! where have you been ? Maud has been 
 asking for you, and is now looking all astonish- 
 ment at your preferring Lady Ferrer's conver- 
 sation to hers." 
 
 Arthur looked up and met the glance of
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 179 
 
 those bright eyes, and soon he was at the other 
 «nd of the room. 
 
 " Balfour," exclaimed Harry Percy as he 
 approached, '* we hope you are edified by Lady 
 Ferrer's amusing discourse ; we have been 
 watching your face of intense delight and in 
 terest, and it nearly made us die with laugh* 
 ter." 
 
 The doors leading into an adjoining room, 
 prepared for dancing, were now thrown open, 
 and Mr. Sutherland desired them to set the 
 example by commencing the ball without fur- 
 ther delay. 
 
 Arthur offered his arm to Maud. 
 
 *' You hardly deserve it," she said as she ac 
 cepted it, " why have you not been near me 
 all the evening ?" 
 
 *' I have been walking with Percival on the 
 terrace," he replied, " and when I returned 
 you seemed so agreeably occupied." 
 
 " Oh, I have been talking to Harry Percy
 
 180 
 
 nearly all the time — he is so extremely enter- 
 taining." 
 
 '' He seemed so — therefore I would not in- 
 terrupt you." 
 
 She laughed and said — 
 
 " Well do not look so cross, or I shall wish 
 him back again." 
 
 There was such a freedom from any shade of 
 embarrassment in her manner, as she spoke 
 thus, that Arthur blamed himself for the slight 
 feeling of jealousy which for a moment had 
 darkened his mind — his cheerfulness returned, 
 and he was even magnanimous enough to ask 
 Harry Percy to be their vis-a-vis in the ensu- 
 ing quadrille. 
 
 When the set was over, and he was walking 
 up and down the room with his partner, she 
 suddenly turned to him, and in a half laughing 
 half confused voice said : 
 
 " Do you know that I have promised to 
 waltz with Harry Percy ?"
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 181 
 
 Arthur started — there had been an agree- 
 ment between them, that they would never 
 waltz but with each other, in short that they 
 should not waltz at all ; for Arthur had rather 
 a dislike to that dance, and indeed very rarely 
 attempted it. Maud saw that he was displeased. 
 
 *' Harry Percy waltzes so beautifully," she 
 continued, in a half apologetic tone, " and I 
 really cannot withstand the temptation." 
 
 " But we had promised each other," Arthur 
 began. 
 
 '* Oh yes," she said interrupting him, *' it 
 was a very easy and safe promise for you, who 
 hate waltzing and do it so badly — but 1 will 
 give you the treat Arthur of seeing a specimen 
 of really good waltzing, and then you may take 
 a lesson.^' 
 
 " Dear Maud," replied Arthur in a pleading 
 accent, '* grant me the favour — do not waltz — 
 your father you know has often expressed his 
 dislike to the dance, especially when performed 
 by his own daughters."
 
 182 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 " Nonsense 1" she exclaimed frowning, *' my 
 father can have no objection to my waltzing 
 with my cousin, so that excuse will not do 
 — and as yet I am under the authority of no 
 one else." 
 
 They were both silent till they reached the 
 spot where Mr. Sutherland was standing, and 
 then Maud stepped towards him and placing 
 her little hand on his arm, said proudly : 
 
 *' Papa have you any objection to my waltz- 
 ing with my cousin Harry Percy ?" 
 
 Mr Sutherland hesitated ere he replied — 
 then looked at Balfour, whose head howevea* 
 was averted, and saying, 
 
 '* I refer you to Balfour ; if he does not 
 object I cannot," walked away. 
 
 Maud coloured and bit her lip. 
 
 The music struck up. — Harry Percy arose 
 and approached her, and she cast an impatient 
 glance on Arthur which seemed to express the 
 question, " Am I to bend to your caprice or 
 not ?"
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 183 
 
 He understood it well, and bowing his head 
 gravely, coldly relinquished her arm : this 
 action also told her as well as words could have 
 done — 
 
 " You know my opinion on the subject — 
 but, as you say, I have no right to dictate to 
 you." 
 
 For one short moment she wavered, but in 
 the next Harry Percy was triumphantly leading 
 her to the dance. 
 
 Arthur Balfour's heart sunk within him, and 
 he was turning dejectedly away, when his arm 
 was gently grasped, and the words, " Arthur 
 — dear Arthur, I will only waltz with Harry 
 Percy I promise you — indeed I will not," fell 
 upon his ear. 
 
 He looked up and Maud's tearful eyes were 
 fixed upon him with an expression which made 
 his heart beat once more with exultation and 
 happiness— it seemed as if they were humbly im- 
 ploring forgiveness — and to whom else would 
 she have thus bowed her proud spirit ?
 
 184 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 Maud's partner had left her to desire a par- 
 ticular waltz to be played, and she had taken 
 this opportunity to sooth Arthur, and quiet 
 her own conscience. 
 
 Lord Percival who stood near, caught the 
 words, notwithstanding the low tone in which 
 they were spoken. 
 
 '' Unlucky Arthur !" he thought, *' only— 
 only Harry Percy ! Ah !" he continued as he 
 saw him seat himself by May, *' you would 
 have been far wiser had you been less 
 ambitious in your love — your gentle, younger 
 cousin would have suited you much better — 
 how her soft eyes sparkle — how the colour 
 mounts to her fair cheek as he addresses her ! 
 what would I give, poor fellow 1 to disperse the 
 dark clouds which are hovering over your head 
 — but I see the storm is gathering fast." 
 
 The meditation was interrupted by his 
 partner, who exclaimed : 
 
 *^ How beautifully she waltzes — how perfect ! 
 — do look, Lord Percival is it not exquisite ?
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 185 
 
 I never saw Miss Sutherland waltz before — 
 this is the first time she has done so since we 
 came to the Manor. How lovely and graceful 
 she is I" 
 
 Yes, there they were, whirling rapidly round 
 most gracefully — in that all fascinating — all 
 intoxicating dance ! — Every eye was upon them, 
 even the other couples ceased waltzing, and 
 paused to gaze with admiration — and when at 
 length they stopped to rest for awhile, the eyes 
 of the fair danseuse were beaming bright with 
 pleasure, and Percival heard her exclaim : 
 
 " How charming — how delightful I" 
 
 ** Delightful — perfect — charming indeed," 
 echoed her partner as he leant over her, and 
 again his arm encircled her slender waist — once 
 more they were flying away into the mazes of 
 the dance. 
 
 It seemed as if they could never weary — they 
 were still dancing when the music ceased, and 
 it appeared to Arthur Balfour, as if it would
 
 186 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 have lasted for ever — he thought a waltz had 
 never yet been so interminable. 
 
 " Over already ! — not one turn more ? how 
 provoking !" exclaimed Maud, as she was led by 
 Harry Percy into the cool vestibule past the 
 spot where Arthur and May sat. 
 
 '' Poor Arthur !" again soliloquised Percival, 
 *' only Harry Percy indeed /"
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 187 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 " 'Tis strange to think, if we covild fling aside 
 The mask and mantle many wear from pride, 
 How much woTild be, we now so little guess, 
 Deep in each heart's undreamed — unsought recess." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 " Now to my charms. 
 And to my wily trains." 
 
 INIlLTON. 
 
 The last carriage had rolled away from the 
 door, and the Sutherlands and Arthur Balfour 
 stood on the stone steps till the sound of its re- 
 volving wheels, had died away, and then they
 
 188 THE GAMBLER*S WIFE. 
 
 turned to one another with enquiring looks 
 which seemed to say, " Now how shall we 
 enjoy our liberty ?" 
 
 " It was soon proposed that they should all 
 drive to visit a ruined castle, the lion par ex- 
 cellence of the neighbourhood, about ten miles 
 from the Manor, and eat their luncheon in an 
 adjoining farm-house. This scheme met with 
 universal approbation, and a message was 
 despatched to Harry Percy to acquaint him of 
 this arrangement. 
 
 He sent back to say '' he was just up — would 
 dress and breakfast with all his powers of 
 alacrity, and follow them on horseback." 
 
 Arthur had lately received, as a gift from 
 Mr. Sutherland, a handsome phaeton and 
 horses ; he was very proud of his equipage, and 
 indeed it was perfect of its kind ; he begged 
 Maud to allow him to drive her in it. She 
 joyfully agreed to this proposal for she had no 
 taste for the close carriage, which the present
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 189 
 
 season made it necessary her mother should 
 occupy. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland could not accompany them, 
 but he took care to see that his wife had every- 
 thing to conduce to her warmth and comfort, 
 smilingly bade Arthur be careful and bring his 
 charge safely back, and then wrapping Maud's 
 fur cloak comfortably round her feet he wished 
 them a very pleasant day. 
 
 Arthur gave one slight touch with his whip 
 to the spirited horses which immediately 
 sprang forward, followed by the less speedy 
 chariot containing the two ladies. 
 
 It was as fine and bright a February morn- 
 ing as ever was beheld ; approaching spring 
 seemed anxiously contending with lingering 
 winter. The ground sparkled like crystal 
 with the remains of the late frost, but prim- 
 roses here and there peeped forth from the 
 hedges. 
 
 The exhilarating effect ever produced by a 
 quick drive through the open air, on such a
 
 190 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 morning as this, did not fail to impart itself to 
 Arthur and his companion. All remembrance of 
 the last evening's conversation on the terrace — 
 of the waltzing — all past grievances vanished 
 from the mind of the young man ; the bright 
 being he loved was by his side — her musical 
 laugh rang upon his ear — her dark eyes 
 beamed upon him, and joy — unmixed joy and 
 hope, again like the spring, burst forth to glad- 
 den his heart — joy in the present — bright hope 
 for the future ! 
 
 " Alas, alas hope is not prophecy !" 
 
 As for Maud her spirits were unbounded in 
 their exhuberance —language seemed too poor — 
 too insufficient to satisfy them, they over- 
 flowed in song, and calling upon Arthur to 
 join his voice with hers, they broke forth into 
 the most cheerful and harmonious strains. — The 
 words — 
 
 " For it is life's happy hour."
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 191 
 
 seemed to speak from their very souls as well 
 as from their lips ; Mrs. Sutherland and May 
 smiled, as their ears faintly caught the 
 sounds borne back to them by the soft breeze, and 
 their eyes sparkled with pleasure — they too 
 were happy in their own quiet way. 
 
 But the notes of the song also reached 
 another, and he spurred his horse on even more 
 quickly than before. 
 
 *' This will never do !" he murmured, " this 
 sounds not like the sighing of a fettered heart. 
 " Youth's happy hour !" he bitterly repeated, 
 " dead and lost is that hour to me — never till 
 now, did this heart feel how truly your golden 
 light has passed for ever ! — But it shall shine 
 again — yes ! the bright hue of that lovely 
 girl's smile shall illumine this darkened — 
 blighted heart — blighted before its time by 
 the destructive contact of a vain and empty 
 world. I have hitherto played with love merely 
 for my own amusement, but never have I
 
 192 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 truly, felt the passion till now when 
 her whom I could really prize is given to 
 another. Is it possible then, that I, Harry 
 Percy. am indeed at last fairly caught ? is it 
 indeed possible ? — The world at least will not 
 believe it — will attribute to me its own mer- 
 cenary motives — but with all my faults I have 
 never been a fortune-hunter — no one can ac- 
 cuse me of that. But by Jove ! the world for 
 once is right — it would be a glorious patch up 
 to my ruined fortune. — Fate ! you have 
 hitherto frowned upon me, but I have never 
 yet invoked your aid to assist my love. — Smile 
 on me now thou fickle goddess Fortune for 
 Maud Sutherland must be mine !^' 
 
 These were the meditations of Harry Percy ! 
 
 " But there is no time to be lost," he con- 
 tinued to soliloquise, 
 
 " If it were done, when t'is done then t'were well, 
 It were done quickly." 
 
 So said Macbeth, and so say I. — Much is 
 to be done — there is that young fellow to
 
 193 
 
 disentangle from her heart. — I fancy already 
 that work has made some progress, and the ex- 
 perienced — invincible — victorious Harry Percy 
 will continue to entwine his snares around it. — 
 Courage then, courage I * faint heart never won 
 fair lady !' " and with these words on his lips, 
 he bounded forward to the side of the phaeton. 
 The song ceased when he reached it, the 
 horses' pace was slackened, a blushing face 
 turned towards him, and a little hand was ex- 
 tended, which was pressed with a fervour 
 which he saw was felt as he intended it should 
 be, and her words of greeting returned with 
 an impassioned glance which he perceived was 
 perfectly understood, for the bright eyes 
 lowered till their long lashes swept the burn- 
 ing cheek ; but the next moment the impatient 
 horses received a lash from their driver which 
 made them spring forward at a furious pace, 
 and Harry Percy's steed starting aside, rearing 
 and plunging, he was soon lost sight of, being 
 left considerably behind by the phaeton. 
 
 VOL. I. K
 
 194 
 
 The rider uttered a suppressed imprecation, 
 but composed his features and smoothed his 
 brow, as he turned to speak to the occupants of 
 the chariot, but still it was not with his usual 
 bland and easy smile — and May said to her 
 mother, " How grave and pale Harry looks !"— ~ 
 Mrs. Sutherland answered, that she was fear- 
 ful he had much cause for gravity, for the last 
 post had brought him very bad account of his 
 affairs. 
 
 The subject of these observations had very 
 soon again reached the phaeton — he kissed his 
 hand most gracefully as he passed it, taking 
 care to exhibit to the best advantage his supe- 
 rior horsemanship, which the fine action of the 
 noble animal he rode fully favoured. 
 
 The turrets of the ruined castle soon ap- 
 peared in view, and in a short time, the whole 
 of the party were seated at a good luncheon, 
 in the farm-house parlour. 
 
 But where was the wild gaiety which had 
 possessed the beautiful Maud during the begin-
 
 THE GAMBLFR's WIFE. 195 
 
 nins of the drive ? it had indeed been like the 
 uncertain glory of a spring mornig — too bright 
 to last. 
 
 From the moment Harry Percy approached 
 the phaeton, a gloom had gradually gathered 
 over her countenance, broken by sudden flashes 
 of pettishness, and irritability. Those who 
 knew her best, probably attributed these 
 symptoms to what, we are unwillingly obliged 
 to confess, was not a rare event — namely, 
 the unromantic and unheroine-like fact, of the 
 beautiful Maud being in a bad humour. 
 
 But who could marvel that she should thus 
 occasionally err, when the fault never failed 
 to call forth such proofs of aifection— such kind- 
 ness from others— when instead of chidings, 
 redoubled attention and fondness were ever 
 lavished on the spoilt beauty to win her back 
 to smiles. But this day the pettishness and 
 irritability were assumed, a2)parently, to hide 
 deeper feelings ; she seemed as if acting a part 
 throughout the morning. 
 K 3
 
 196 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 There was no childish sentiment in the 
 startled, thoughtful expression of those dark 
 eyes, or the impatient, anxious tone of her 
 voice ; she was evidently ill at ease with her- 
 self, and therefore sought, not to appear so to 
 those around her. 
 
 At luncheon the conversation was badly 
 sustained — a cloud seemed to hover round the 
 whole party — and poor Maud ! no wonder she 
 was oppressed and gloomy — a change had in- 
 deed come '* o'er the spirit of her dream — 
 
 " Never more will the young heart know 
 
 Its joyous hour 
 
 Its childhood is departed.'
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 1^7 
 
 CHAPTEE XVIL 
 
 ■^ I think on many a wasted hour 
 And sicken o'er the void, 
 And many darker are behind 
 On worse than nought employed. 
 
 — — — — Alas my heart 
 How widely hast thou strayed, 
 And misused every golden gift 
 For better purpose made." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 '' Are you going to sit here for ever ?" ex- 
 claimed Maud as she suddenly looked up, as if 
 awakened from a deep reverie, and met a gaze 
 which caused a bright flush to pass over her 
 cheeks, *' do you mean to remain in this room
 
 198 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 all the day, and return home without once 
 having stirred out, to look at the very object 
 you came to see ?" 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland was comfortably seated by 
 the blazing, wood fire. The farmer's wife had 
 formerly been a servant at the Manor, and 
 loved her devotedly, as all those who knew her 
 well, ever did. It was her intention to remain 
 quietly there till the time arrived for their re- 
 turn home, for even the easy drive had fatigued 
 the invalid, and she was conversing with Mrs. 
 Meade on the subject of her domestic affairs in 
 which she took a kind interest. 
 
 May was playing with the rosy children 
 grouped around her, and Maud had seated her- 
 self by the lattice window, her eyes vacantly 
 fixed on the objects without, in the mood de- 
 scribed before. Arthur was by her side — he 
 took her hand which lay listlessly on her knee, 
 and strove, fruitlessly, to win her to smiles and 
 conversation. She did not withdraw her hand 
 but averted her face.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 199 
 
 And Harry Percy — he had at first placed 
 himself by Mrs. Sutherland, chatted and ap- 
 peared to take the most profound interest in 
 Mrs. Meade's aifairs, admired and caressed her 
 children, enquired their ages and names, and 
 told all the little girls they were very pretty 
 and very tall, and the little boys they were 
 very fine fellows ; but at last he moved to a 
 horse-hair sofa opposite the window where 
 Maud and Arthur were seated, drew a news- 
 paper from his pocket and apparently began to 
 read. What — its contents ? No — Maud caught 
 his eye fixed on her and Arthur over the edge 
 of the paper, quickly however removed when 
 he perceived he was discovered. She abruptly 
 drew her hand from Arthur and exclaimed : 
 
 '' Are you going to sit here for ever ? I 
 thought you came to see the ruins ; if it were 
 only to read the papers and watch the ducks 
 swimming in the pond, we might just as well 
 have remained at home !"
 
 200 THE gambler's wife, 
 
 *' Well, then let us go/' said Arthur, and he 
 offered her his arm. 
 
 '•^ Oh no !" she replied impatiently, " having 
 seen the castle constantly for eighteen years, I 
 would rather remain where I am, I have 
 a dreadful headache. Oh, do not stay on 
 my account !" she continued, as Arthur 
 announced his intention of remaining with 
 her ; and she walked languidly towards her 
 mother, and seated herself on a low stool 
 by her side, and leant her head against her 
 knee. 
 
 On their first aquaintance, Harry Percy and 
 Balfour had been constant companions and got 
 on very well together — but when once the 
 feeling of distrust and doubt has entered the 
 heart, all unconstrained and social intercourse 
 must cease. The present position of the two 
 gentlemen, destroyed every inclination for a 
 tete-a-tete walk, they therefore stopped, as they 
 passed through the little garden, at the lattice
 
 THE gambler's wife. 201 
 
 window to invite May to accompany them, and 
 she cheerfully consented to be their cicerone. 
 
 The society of a young, innocent girl like 
 May, was refreshing, even to a heart fettered 
 by passion and care. It was like the cool 
 breeze on the fevered brow — the clear, spark- 
 ling rivulet on the sultry summer day, and as 
 she walked between her two cousine, pointing 
 out to them the beauties of the spot — relating 
 the traditions associated with the ancient pile, 
 her fair face glowing with gentle enthusiasm, 
 her soft, hazle eyes kindling as she spoke, 
 the youthful days of the worldling seemed to 
 rise up before him — those days when his heart 
 was affectionate and pure — his hopes bright 
 and promising — when he was rich in the 
 love of parents — and of the fair creature, 
 whose daughter, (so like what her mother had 
 then been) now walked by his side. He 
 thought of his own mother's early death — of 
 her grave, which he had wept over ! — sad 
 memories which however had failed to draw his 
 K 5
 
 202 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 hopes to that " better land," where he had in 
 his boyhood often loved to think of her. 
 
 The young, fair face of May Sutherland re- 
 vived in the once warm heart of Harry Percy 
 wretched reflections and retrospects of his past 
 life, and brought with them an indefinable 
 longing — a craving anxiety for something to 
 fill up the blank space in his soul ; and the wish 
 was independent of any object or circumstance, 
 on which for years his hopes and expectations 
 had been fixed ; for what he now panted was 
 the peace which this world cannot give ! But 
 only for brief moments did these gleams of 
 better things rest upon his mind — he drove 
 such thoughts away like busy intruders — what 
 had he to do with memory ? it conjured 
 nought but dismal phantoms. — " I will think 
 of the beautiful present," he soliloquised — his 
 mind turning to the lovely Maud — '' out upon 
 you Harry Percy for a coward !" And had his 
 companions looked upon his countenance they 
 would have marked a smile of scorn. " What
 
 THE GAMBLER^S WIFE. 203 
 
 Tegular folly to feel any compunction on the 
 score of this young fellow Balfour. — I shall 
 be only doing Lira an act of kindness — she is 
 not in any way suited to him, ^they are the 
 very extreme of opposites ; how much more cal- 
 culated," he continued to ponder, as he gazed on 
 May who leant on Arthur's arm, and was look- 
 ing up into his face with an expression of such 
 pleasure and confiding affection, nay even of 
 admiration, as they conversed together, *' how- 
 far more suited is that pretty, calm girl for 
 young Balfour, than her glorious sister ! I am 
 sure it would be serving the good youth to 
 forestal him in the love of one who can never 
 contribute to his happiness. He ought to 
 have a more domestic wife — a more yielding 
 one than she will ever prove. No !— she shall 
 shine resplendently in my world, and in my 
 leisure hours, her impetuous spirit will be an 
 amusement. — I cannot exist without excite- 
 ment of some kind or other. I flatter myself 
 I am a pretty good judge of character, and de-
 
 204 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 pend upon it little May is the wife for Bal- 
 four ; but the difficulty will be to make him 
 think so." 
 
 With all these thoughts crowding upon 
 Harry Percy's mind, it may be easily imagined 
 that May and Arthur had all the conversation 
 to themselves. They had extended their walk 
 further than they had intended, the sun had 
 set behind the distant hills, and it was getting 
 quite dark when they returned to the farm. 
 
 When they entered the little parlour, the 
 first object that met their eyes, was Maud with 
 Mrs. Meade's fat, crowing baby on her knee, 
 surrounded by the rest of the children, whom 
 she was delighting with her gaiety and kind- 
 ness, and who stood gazing on her lovely face 
 with evident admiration ; for children are 
 always attracted by beauty, particularly when 
 Combined with good nature. 
 
 The shadow had passed from her brow, and 
 as she sat,unmindful of their presence, she looked 
 as if no untoward passions had ever ruffled her
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 205 
 
 serenity. On first noticing the entrance of the 
 walking party, she slightly started, but 
 took no heed of any one ; she only bent more 
 fondly over the pretty baby, her godson, and 
 shook the coral and bells, her own gift, which 
 hung round his neck, whilst the little creature 
 seized her long curls which Arthur hastened to 
 disentangle from the merciless grasp. She 
 laughed and thanked him, but lifted not her 
 eyes to his face. 
 
 Harry Percy had walked straight up to 
 Mrs. Sutherland, who begged him to hasten 
 their departure ; but Mrs. Meade had set out 
 her best China tea-things, and of tea and hot 
 cakes they were entreated to partake— after 
 which the caariage drove to the door, the 
 lamps lighted, for it was already nearly dark. 
 The weather had become very cold and the 
 farmer predicted rain.
 
 206 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 ** I thought how love, I thought how hope 
 
 O'er the horizon of my heart 
 
 Had poured their light like yonder sun, 
 
 Like yon sun, only to depart : 
 
 Alas ! that ever suns should set, 
 
 Or Hope grow cold, Love forget !" 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 " Dearest Maud, you will not venture in the 
 phaeton I trust," said Mrs. Sutherland, 
 anxiously, as they equipped themselves in their 
 cloaks and furs, " No indeed darling" she con- 
 tinued, as Maud signified her intention of so
 
 THE GAMBLKRS WIFE. 207 
 
 doing, '* I cannot permit it, so you must relin- 
 quish Arthur's society for this once, and put up 
 with May's and mine." 
 
 But Maud looked dissatisfied. 
 
 " I am sure it will not rain," she said, '' and 
 
 how can I be cold in all these wraps ?" And 
 
 she walked to the door, and gazed on a scene, 
 
 as different from the brightness of the mornings 
 
 as had been then her mood contrasted with the 
 present gloom. In the mean time her mother 
 
 called Arthur aside, and begged him to recon- 
 cile her spoilt child to the arrangement she had 
 proposed. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland knew that Arthur had ac- 
 quired an influence over Maud, which not even 
 her indulgent parents possessed — that a word — 
 a look from him had often recalled smiles, 
 which some slight disappointment or contradic- 
 tion, had for a moment banished. — She knew 
 not the altered state of the case, and as Bal- 
 four withdrew '* to do his best" as he said, no
 
 208 
 
 one guessed the painful, torturing thought, 
 which called forth the heavy sigh which 
 heaved from his now doubtful heart. 
 
 He approached Maud as she stood by the 
 door, and said in a cheerful tone : 
 
 *' So, dear Maud, I am not to have the plea- 
 sure of driving you home !" 
 
 It seemed that he had raised her from a 
 reverie, for she started when he spoke, but 
 then quickly said : 
 
 '' Indeed— I was not aware — pray why not?" 
 
 " I thought it was your mother's wish that 
 you should return in the chariot," and there 
 was an expression in his voice as he spoke, 
 which told as plainly as if he had added *' Is 
 not her wish your law ?" " She is fearful," 
 he continued, '* that the rain will overtake us — 
 I am bound to second her desire, great as the 
 disappointment is to me." 
 
 Maud turned away her head. 
 
 ** But really it is not very cold," resumed
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 209 
 
 Arthur, '' I know now how it can be man- 
 aged to please us both," he exclaimed, " I will 
 drive the chariot, and you can sit with me on 
 the box, then if the rain comes on, you can 
 easily change, and go inside. — My horses I am 
 afraid would never accommodate their paces 
 to those of the others." 
 
 Receiving no answer of dissent or assent to 
 this plan, he started off to make the necessary 
 arrangements. 
 
 Balfour found Harry Percy superintending 
 the saddling of his horse, and on hearing of the 
 new plan he asked the reason, and then care- 
 lessly said : 
 
 '* Oh ! if that's the case, you may as well 
 let me drive your phaeton, and the groom 
 can ride my horse." 
 
 Arthur Balfour willingly assented, and re- 
 mained to give some orders to the servants 
 whilst the former returned to the house. — 
 When he followed him and looked into the little
 
 210 
 
 parlour, in order to tell the party that all was 
 ready, Harry Percy was standing between 
 Maud and her mother, talking in his most 
 earnest manner. Maud was laughingly shak- 
 ing her head, whilst Mrs. Sutherland with 
 a half smile and half frown, was listening to 
 his energetic pleading. — Harry Percy's enun- 
 ciation was most peculiarly rapid and em- 
 phatic. 
 
 The next moment he had darted forth^ and 
 when Arthur gave his arm to Maud, and 
 led her to the door to assist her, as he thought 
 to mount the box, he heard the words : 
 
 " Oh no thank you — I have no wish to play 
 the footman," 
 
 He paused and was about to hand her into 
 the carriage, where Mrs. .Sutherland was 
 seated, when the voice of Harry Percy was 
 heard behind them. 
 
 ' ' Where is your sister ?" he said. 
 
 *' She is I suppose on the carriage box
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 211 
 
 with Arthur ; he gave up driving the phaeton 
 on the purpose," was the answer in the soft 
 tones of May. 
 
 " Oh nonsense ! I am to have that plea- 
 sure to-night, and you must console the for- 
 saken ; I am sure you will do it famously, 
 and be also an excellent substitute." 
 
 " Harry ! you know I will not," May 
 was heard to say, in a less gentle accent than 
 was her wont as she turned away ; thereby 
 preventing the indignant flash of her usually 
 mild eyes from being seen, otherwise it might 
 have surprised her listener as much as did the 
 change in the tones of her voice. 
 
 ** Maud is this true ?" exclaimed Arthur. 
 
 '^ Yes, Harry — " she replied, and those first 
 words were scarcely audible, but she then con- 
 tinued in a perfectly clear, calm voice : 
 
 " Harry made some little exertion to over- 
 come mamma's fears and objections, knowing 
 my great desire to return home in the phaeton,
 
 212 
 
 he therefore deserves to be rewarded — and — 
 and I have promised to let him drive me !" 
 
 What could Arthur Balfour say ? He 
 would not trust himself to speak — he felt his 
 indignation vehemently rising — not against 
 her but against the dissembler^ who had thus 
 cajoled — cheated him of her society — But 
 still there was nothing that could authorise 
 his opposing the scheme — and although at 
 that moment the young man would gladly have 
 spurned to the ground, and trampled on the 
 being who, with a sickening shudder, he now 
 began indeed to regard in the light of a rival 
 — as with his careless self-satisfied, self-pos- 
 sessed smile, he triumphantly led away his 
 too willing captive — yet he had to control 
 his indignant feelings and smother his wrath, 
 whilst Mrs. Sutherland bestowed some part- 
 ing words on the farmer and his wife. 
 
 He was roused from his forgetfulness of 
 aught save himself, by meeting the kind.
 
 THE GAIVIBLER's WIFE. 213 
 
 pitying glance, of his younger cousin, earn- 
 estly fixed upon him — but pity is very grating 
 — very galling to a proud heart, smarting 
 under wrong, and he hastened to smooth his 
 brow ; and with a forced smile approached 
 her, and asked if they were nearly ready to 
 start. 
 
 *' That naughty girl," said Mrs. Suther- 
 land, probably perceiving through all his en- 
 deavours to conceal it, symptoms of discom- 
 fiture in his countenance, ^'' that naughty 
 girl ! gained her point after all, as she gen- 
 erally does. — Arthur there will be a great 
 deal for you to do in the way of reform." The 
 last phrase was added with a lively smile, but 
 poor Arthur could not return it. " Come, 
 you had better make yourself comfortable 
 with us inside," she continued, " as you will 
 have nothing to render your cold drive agree- 
 able," and May nestled close to her mother to 
 shew that there was plenty of room.
 
 214 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 He at first looked half inclined to accept 
 the oiFer, but finally shook his head, and 
 forcing a smile said : " he feared his 
 long legs would only be in their way, hastily 
 mounted the box and drove off. 
 
 The fact was that the moment after the 
 invitation was uttered, the phaeton had driven 
 rapidly past and the ringing laugh which in 
 the morning had rang upon his ears like 
 
 " The song of a young bird, 
 As musical as it was bright and wild — ." 
 
 now jarred upon them like 
 
 '* Sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh." 
 
 as she gaily kissed her hand to those sheleft 
 behind. The sound of Maud's laugh struck upon 
 his heart, as the death knell of her love ! but 
 he strove to rouse — to reason himself out of 
 the agonised feelings which raged within his 
 breast — to blame — to laugh at his weakness
 
 THE gambler's WIFE, 215 
 
 and folly, in construing what probably after 
 all, was the imaginary phantom of jealousy, 
 called up by the insinuations of his cousin 
 the previous evening ; he would not, could not 
 doubt his beautiful Maud— Thus he tried to 
 reason with himself — poor youth ! how fruit- 
 lessly did he strive— the barbed arrow of suspi- 
 cion had pierced his heart. And Harry Percy ! 
 Without one pang of self-reproach or compunc- 
 tion, he sprang into the phaeton by the side of 
 " his lovely torment."
 
 216 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 " It is a fearful trust, the trust of love- 
 in fear, not hope should woman's heart receive 
 
 A guest so terrible." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 In this short day, apparently so devoid of in- 
 cident, the destiny of Maud Sutherland had 
 been decided. She had for sometime felt the 
 spell — the hitherto cherished, pleasing spell 
 which had bound her to Arthur Balfour,
 
 217 
 
 gradually passing away and another feeling 
 more subtle, full of painful excitement, but 
 irresistible — erecting for itself a foundation 
 as it were upon the very ruins of the first, and 
 insiduously winding itself round her heart. 
 
 No wonder then, that in spirit she wept 
 over the ghost of her first pure love, as it 
 hovered mournfully round her, as if beseeching 
 her to recal it, ere it passed away for ever — 
 sadly whispering into her inmost soul, that 
 with it must depart her own young happiness ; 
 like the injured Ondine when imploring, not 
 for her sake, but for his own, the fidelity of 
 the inconstant Huldibrand. 
 
 But how was the warning influence of her 
 conscience received ? 
 
 Arthur would have been somewhat consoled 
 if he had known how forced was the laugh 
 which had been called forth by the congratula- 
 tory words of Harry Percy on the victory she 
 had gained — his praise of the firm spirit she 
 had shewn, in punishing the very ungallant op- 
 
 VOL. I. L
 
 218 THE gambler's WIFE, 
 
 position to her wishes that Balfour had made ; 
 and then some tvitty speech on Arthur's dismay 
 and consternation, all uttered in a light tone, 
 which shewed of what little consequence he 
 deemed it. 
 
 But when this tone changed into the tender, 
 earnest sound of words, conveying deeper 
 meaning, which gradually stole upon her 
 senses, she struggled not against the speU 
 which lulled the stinging of her conscience — 
 she thought not of her heart's danger, but unre- 
 sistingly gave herself up to the perilous enjoy- 
 ment of the moment — of feeling that Harry 
 Percy was near her— of listening to the words 
 poured forth so melodiously from his lips —of 
 meeting the glance of those deep blue eyes 
 fixed upon her, with a gaze that thrilled 
 through her frame. " Did Arthur ever woo 
 like this ?" she inwardly mused ; " it was I, 
 who extracted his timid, tardily confessed 
 attachment; had I not done so, alas too hastily! 
 he would have left me, and with his well
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 219 
 
 directed mind, soon would he have conquered 
 a feeling engendered by having been so long, 
 and constantly thrown into my society — a feel- 
 ing which he only imagined was love — but it 
 was not love !— perfect confiding love sees no 
 fault or failing in the object of its devotion 
 — and how often has my proud — my wilful 
 conduct, caused a shadow to pass over his brow 
 — he even sometimes presumes to lecture me — 
 to remind me of my duty, and if he is thus as 
 a lover — oh ! how would he be as a husband ? 
 
 Thus did Maud continue to meditate, en- 
 deavouring vainly to form excuses for her own 
 faithless, cruel conduct. — Even whilst her eyes 
 glistened, and her heart beat with emotion, 
 when Harry Percy with energetic vehemence 
 — yet wrapped up with cautious cunning, 
 spoke words, which were imprinted as with a 
 burning iron upon her heart — still her thoughts 
 wandered to her position towards Arthur Bal- 
 four, and shame and confusion, were mingled 
 
 with her reflections. 
 L 3
 
 220 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 " Arthur I am sure," she thought, " thinks 
 me inferior to himself in goodness — never can 
 I give my heart to one, whose love is not 
 sujBficiently powerful, to make him overlook and 
 forget all my faults and imperfections." 
 
 Extenuating thus her conduct, Maud endea- 
 voured to feel that she had some right on her 
 side. " Arthur is very good, very noble I 
 own," she told herself, '' but I am not am- 
 bitious of perfection in a husband, the contrast 
 between us would be too perceptible" — and 
 then she pictured to herself another love — a 
 love which in its strength would overleap every 
 barrier, surmount every obstacle — no circum- 
 stance — no consideration would oppose the force 
 of an ffection, which beamed forth in every 
 glance — in every word of one, who from his 
 earliest youth, had basked in the smiles of beauty 
 but had— withstood all — scorned all — till her 
 charms had warmed his heart into love. And oh ! 
 she thought, he would w^orship the very ground 
 on which she stood— adore — even her failings !
 
 221 
 
 And his faults ! — she would have the triumph 
 of weaning him from the world — because the 
 censorious condemned him, she would only 
 idolize him the more. Poor Maud ! these or 
 some such thoughts, too confused to be accur- 
 ately defined, even by herself, passed rapidly 
 through her young mind, during the first part 
 of her drive and her gaiety was assumed and un- 
 natural — as different from her feelings in the 
 early part of the day, as that morning's light, 
 had been from the evening's darkness. 
 
 Her companion's voice grew more and more 
 earnest and serious, and when the prognosti- 
 cated rain began to descend, and he encircled 
 with his arm her slender form, in order to 
 wrap the furred mantle more closely round her 
 and she expressed her concern that her 
 mother's fears should be realised, and that she 
 should be uneasy on her account, he whispered 
 in a tone that thrilled through her heart, " She 
 need not fear — are you not with /we?— Your 
 mother knows how I love you all dearest
 
 224 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 Maud— she knows I would gladly shed my 
 life's blood to be able through life to shield you 
 from every blast — you ! for whom I would 
 deem it blessed — thrice blessed to live — to die ! 
 — and though cruel fortune has denied it — ." 
 
 But as if by a strong effort he checked him- 
 self, and a deep sigh, and a long pause ensued. 
 This burst of enthusiasm — humbug — or what- 
 ever it might be called, for a time recalled,Maud 
 to a sense of what was right. — Harry Percy 
 felt the hand which a moment before had been 
 pressed within his own, quickly withdrawn, 
 whilst she drew herself up, averted her head, 
 and was silent. 
 
 But for this he cared not ; he felt that the 
 game was in his own hands — he knew the 
 mighty struggle of her pride against his love, and 
 this very struggle made him glory more than 
 ever in his conquest.—" Harry Percy thou art 
 indeed invincible !" he inwardly apostrophised. 
 
 And Maud trembled at her own abject 
 weakness — she who had ever made it her
 
 THE gambler's WIFE* 225 
 
 boast to triumph over the hearts of others— 
 now to have so little commaad over her own — 
 was it possible that she possessed so little 
 dignity and command ! 
 
 But those who have never yet felt the 
 necessity of curbing their own will in the 
 slightest degree — who have ever made the gra- 
 tification of their own feelings their chief object, 
 considering little those of others, who have 
 used their pride merely as a weapon, to mor- 
 tify — not as a defence and armour to preserve 
 their own hearts in the paths of rectitude — 
 often find pride, deaf to their call, when 
 its aid is really needed. 
 
 Maud at length attempted to break the 
 silence which to her at least was embarrassing, 
 and in a hurried, careless manner, waiting for 
 no answer, proceeded to talk rapidly on 
 indifferent subjects. Her companion perceived 
 her confusion and rejoiced at it. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland was standing at the door 
 ready to receive them on their arrival, and
 
 2 6 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 when he pressed his daughter in his arms, as 
 he lifted her from the carriage, her heart smote 
 her, for had not she encouraged — -yielded herself 
 up without a struggle to a feeling, which were 
 her parent conscious of its existence, would fill 
 him with amazement, grief, and unbounded in- 
 dignation. ? The father always so fond, and 
 kind, having led her before a blazing wood- 
 fire in the hall, and gently relieved her of her 
 numerous wet wrappings, for the first time 
 perceived who had been her companion, and 
 enquired with some surprise, what had become 
 of Arthur. Maud answered not, but cast her 
 
 eyes upon the ground. 
 
 Harry Percy however in his usual off-hand 
 
 way, explained the affair in a manner more 
 
 satisfactory than true ; and Mr. Sutherland, 
 
 perfectly free from all suspicion, and believing 
 
 that the heart of his daughter was wholly 
 
 Arthur Balfour's, attributed her changed 
 
 demeanour to the circumstance of her having 
 
 been deprived of his society.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 227 
 
 '' i^ou look pale my darling child, and how 
 cold these little hands are !" he remarked as he 
 took one of them, and gently chafed it within 
 his own. 
 
 " They are so indeed," rejoined Harry and 
 the other hand was seized by him, whilst, with 
 the admirable power he possessed, of rendering 
 the most trivial circumstances amusing and 
 interesting, he edified Mr. Sutherland by re- 
 lating the events of the day ; and the colour 
 soon returned to Maud's cheeks, and warmth 
 to the little hand which fluttered like a bird 
 within his. 
 
 And thus was the group arranged round the 
 fire when the chariot drove to the door and 
 Mr. Sutherland hastened to receive the party. 
 
 Maud attempted to withdraw the hand which 
 remained in that of Harry Percy — she had no 
 inclination at that moment, to meet her injured 
 lover's glance,and wished to depart ere he entered 
 the hall. But before this could be accomplished,her
 
 228 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 hand had experienced one more fervent pres- 
 sure, and then it was raised to Harry Percy's 
 lips ! Scarcely had it been released with a 
 long drawn passionate sigh, and Maud but 
 made a few hasty steps towards the oaken 
 staircase, when Arthur entered, shaking the 
 rain from his hat and great coat. 
 
 He started on seeing Maud, and to her ques- 
 tion, enquired in a tone of assumed gaiety, of 
 whether he had enjoyed his drive, he replied 
 with a sad smile : 
 
 " No ! how could I enjoy it ? — And you 
 Maud— ?" 
 
 There was nothing like reproach or anger 
 in his voice or manner, but his words smote 
 painfully on her heart, and she exclaimed with 
 a flash of her large, sparkling eyes, and in a 
 bitter, passionate accent, intended for him who 
 had brought all this altered state of feeling 
 upon her, and caused her to give pain to one 
 so excellent : 
 " I have not enjoyed my drive at all I assure
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 229 
 
 you.— I wish I had gone in the chariot — with 
 — with mamma." 
 
 Harry Percy smiled an incredulous, scornful 
 smile, but neither Arthur nor Maud perceived 
 it — the former had averted his face, probably 
 desirous of concealing the emotions which were 
 rising in his heart, as he listened to her words , 
 and Maud, having concluded her abrupt, con- 
 fused sentence, placed her little foot on the first 
 dark, shining, oaken step, and hastily ascended 
 the stairs.
 
 230 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 " I need not say how, one by one, 
 
 Love's flowers have dropped from off Love's chain." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 ** Is there a heart that music cannot melt ?' 
 
 Beattie. 
 
 A CALM succeeded the events of this last day — 
 a delicious though deceitful calm, which served 
 to lull, in a degree, the suspicion and agony of 
 Arthur Balfour. There existed no longer any 
 reasonable grounds of suspicion on the subject
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 231 
 
 of Harry Percy's attentions towards Maud. 
 It seemed indeed that restraint, and coldness 
 had sprung up between them. Maud was to 
 all appearance his own, and Arthur Balfour 
 too happy to sink once more into the sweet 
 dream of love, sought not to awake from it ; 
 he feared to dispel it — and would not there- 
 fore trust himself to question the reality — he 
 dared not ask himself if it were the same love 
 that had at first made him so supremely happy 
 — he did not trust himself to question whether 
 there was not in the demeanour of the beauti- 
 ful girl, too much courtesy, too much of cere- 
 monious attention — the sad signal — 
 
 " When love begins to sicken and decay." 
 
 in short too much cold, calm kindness to suit 
 the character of love — at any rate — the love of 
 Maud Sutherland! 
 
 He dared not allow himself to remember, 
 how little this would have satisfied him once—
 
 232 
 
 he was too glad to escape the storm, which at 
 one time threatened to burst, and crush his 
 hopes for ever, to seek now to dissipate the 
 ominous stillness, which had succeeded the 
 formerly bright sunshine. 
 
 What abject cowards does love make of the 
 stoutest hearts ! 
 
 But still there were moments when a word 
 — a look, would make him feel the change, 
 " the shadow on his brow — the sickness at 
 his heart" — then again a smile — a peculiar tone 
 of voice, speaking of by-gone hours, would 
 cause the shadow to depart, and once more 
 his young heart would beat with hope and 
 
 joy. 
 
 In his moments of doubt and sorrow — and 
 often did they recur — he had not even the con- 
 solation (if so it could be deemed) of blam- 
 ing his suspected rival, for it seemed as if 
 Percy scrupulously avoided the society and 
 conversation of Maud. And this had been
 
 233 
 
 for some time Percy's policy — policy of which 
 Arthur knew not fully the danger, though he 
 who practised it — so experienced in the nature 
 of the heart of women, fully estimated and 
 valued its power. 
 
 One evening however, Arthur and the two 
 sisters were assembled by the desire of Mrs. 
 Sutherland at the Piano, but May's voice 
 had alone been heard ; in vain had she called 
 upon her two companions to join her. 
 Arthur had repeatedly shaken his head, saying 
 he was in no singing mood — for a few hours 
 before, a pang had been inflicted on his heart, 
 which at last determined him to break 
 through a state of things which even the cer- 
 tainty of misery, would be even more tolera- 
 ble to endure. 
 
 May's voice carried him back to the first 
 evening spent at Sutherland — and then his mind 
 rapidly traced all the past circumstances from 
 that day to the present time. At last Maud,
 
 234 
 
 who had hitherto been seated on an ottoman 
 opposite to Arthur — her eyes fixed in sullen 
 silence on the ground, only raising them 
 occasionally to glance hastily towards the 
 opposite end of the room where Harry 
 Percy was seated, apparently in deep 
 thought, suddenly started up, and how did 
 his heart throb, as she exclaimed in an animated 
 tone, as if wishing to rouse herself from her 
 late gloom I 
 
 '' Arthur pray do not look so grave and 
 dismal ; although you may have lost the powers 
 of conversing, perhaps you can sing to us. — 
 No!" she continued in a gay, but command- 
 ing strain, " I must insist on hearing a solo. 
 May you shall choose one for him — come ! no 
 refusal — I will have it." 
 
 The truth was she had seen a smile of 
 satisfaction and triumph pass over the counte- 
 nance of Harry Percy, as he glanced at 
 Arthur's mournful countenance; he knew well 
 the pain he was inflicting on the young man, 
 and he seemed to glory in it. Maud saw all
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 235 
 
 this — her better feelings prevailed, her 
 heart smote her and then it was that she turned 
 to Arthur, and desired him to sing; he pre- 
 pared to obey her commands, whilst May- 
 selected a solo. 
 
 What language can speak so eloquently to 
 the heart as that of song— well may the poet 
 say— 
 
 " Amid the golden gifts which Heaven 
 Has left like portions of its light on earth, 
 None hath such influence as music hath." 
 
 The very soul of the young man seemed to 
 gush from his lips, in the following words of 
 the song selected by May. 
 
 ** Changed, changed ! I feel that thou art changed, 
 
 Though change thou dost deny ; 
 
 I feel it as the storm is felt 
 
 Ere seen in yonder sky. 
 
 Slight are the signs that shew the heart, 
 
 And slight those shewing thine ; 
 
 Ah WHY should time exhaust thy love, 
 
 And yet not alter mine ? 
 
 Those eyes that used to fill with light 
 When I have gazed on thee,
 
 236 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 That voice which into whisper sunk, 
 
 Whene're it spoke to me ; 
 
 Those eyes are cold — that voice has lost 
 
 That low peculiar tone ; 
 
 Till now I did not know how much 
 
 I thought thou we'rt my own. 
 
 Be altered, faithless, what thou wilt, 
 
 But let me still believe 
 
 That ONCE I was beloved again— 
 
 That thou didst not deceive. 
 
 My present is a weary lot, 
 
 My future is o'ercast ; 
 
 My heart, which dreams and doubts distrust, 
 
 Turns sadly to the past." 
 
 Arthur Balfour had a beautifully plaintive 
 and sweet toned voice, and the pathos and 
 deep feeling with which he breathed forth 
 words so accordant with the painful emotions 
 passing in his heart — the melting tenderness 
 so unconsciously expressed in his eyes, as he 
 turned them towards Maud — was truly touch- 
 ing. When he arrived at the concluding 
 stanza, his voice became low and tremulous— 
 and his fluttering heart rendered the two last
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 237 
 
 lines scarcely audible to those who were at 
 some distance from the instrument — though to 
 the two persons near him they were perfectly 
 distinct. 
 
 Little did some of his audience imagine, how 
 appropriate to his own feelings were the words 
 he uttered ! Mr. Sutherland exclaimed from 
 the farther end of the long saloon : 
 
 " What a dismal ditty Balfour !" 
 
 And Mrs. Sutherland added, 
 
 " Yes it is indeed — and really from the 
 manner you sing it Arthur, one might imagine 
 that you were pouring forth the sorrows of 
 your own heart." 
 
 But some of the listeners did not appear 
 equally unconscious. As he finished the song, 
 he met the eyes of May raised towards his, 
 with a look of the deepest sympathy — it 
 was a look he had frequently encountered 
 lately, but never had he so fully appre- 
 ciated the kindness of its expression as at 
 this moment, and he thought that hitherto
 
 238 
 
 her affectionate solicitude had only met with 
 coldness and neglect ; bending over her there- 
 fore, he said in a low, kind voice — 
 
 '* Thank you dear May, thank you for find- 
 ing me words to express what I so deeply 
 feel/' 
 
 He was turning away, but a gentle touch of 
 his arm and an expressive glance from her 
 whom ha addressed, caused him to direct his 
 looks once more towards Maud, whose face 
 during the latter part of the song had been 
 averted. It was now buried in her hands, and 
 the pearly drops were fast trickling through 
 her slender fingers, whilst her bosom heaved 
 convulsively. 
 
 May rose hastily — not to comfort her, but 
 to leave that part to be performed by one more 
 able, and to prevent, if possible, the observation 
 of others being directed tow^ards her. She 
 saw not till she moved, that Harry Percy was 
 standing behind her chair, evidently earnestly 
 watching the deep emotion of her sister.
 
 THE Q^i3IBLER's WIFE. 239 
 
 Maud perceived it not. — Bitter remorse for 
 the suffering she had caused — for her treachery 
 — her inconstancy, were at that moment exer- 
 cising their chastening influence on her heart, 
 and when at length Harry Percy approached 
 her, and was about to seat himself by her side 
 — she repulsed hioi with a look which baffled, 
 even him. 
 
 To hide his confusion and discomfiture, he 
 walked, seemingly as if it had been his original 
 intention, to the other end of the room, where 
 he was soon engaged in conversation with Mr. 
 and ^Irs. Sutherland. 
 
 In the deep recess of the saloon, by the side 
 of his beloved, Balfour passed an hour of per- 
 fect bliss — so perfect that he almost deemed it 
 equivalent to the misery he had lately endured. 
 He made such good use of that brief hour, 
 that it seemed probable Harry Percy's 
 usurped dominion, once shaken as it now was, 
 would soon totter, bend and fall to the ground, 
 never to rise again.
 
 240 
 
 But alas ! the next morning with the post, 
 arrived a summons, requiring Arthur's presence 
 in Ireland, on military aiFairs, whieh admitted 
 of no postponement.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 341 
 
 CHAPTER XXL 
 
 " Farewell! 
 Shadows and scenes that have, for many hours 
 Been my companions, I part from ye — 
 
 With deep sad thoughts 
 
 And hopes — almost misgivings !" 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 This intelligence fell like a thunderbolt on the 
 heart of poor Arthur. One more fortnight and 
 his destiny was to be irrevocably decided. 
 Away from his beloved, that period would 
 appear a century ! Still, in the midst of his des-
 
 342 
 
 pondency, he had one powerful sense of conso- 
 lation. Had he been called away a few days 
 sooner, he would have departed — his mind dis- 
 tracted with suspicion and doubt — now he 
 scorned his previous fears and gloomy forebod- 
 ings, and his perfect confidence and renewed 
 happiness, served to support him, when the 
 sinking sensation of misery, forced itself upon 
 him, and which in spite of all his fortitude he 
 now felt more deeply, as the moment for 
 departure arrived. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland had an engagement in the 
 country town that morning, which obliged him 
 to quit home soon after Arthur had told him 
 of the necessity of his immediate departure. 
 On taking an affectionate leave of his young rela- 
 tive,he spoke with much warmth of the real plea- 
 sure it gave him to think of the near connection 
 which would soon exist between them, and Ar- 
 thur heard with a thrill of joy, tempered however 
 by the saddened tone of Mr. Sutherland's 
 voice, that it was his wife's earnest hope that
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 243 
 
 an event which she so ardently desired, should 
 not be delaj/ed longer than was requisite, for 
 the necessary arrangements on such occa- 
 sions. 
 
 Arthur knew by the quivering lip of the 
 speaker — the nervous pressure of his hand, 
 what were the reflections that prompted this 
 desire. With her — that much loved friend he 
 had a long and affecting interview — and then 
 he sought Maud, for in half an hour he was 
 to depart. 
 
 He found her in the conservatory, 
 tying up the slender branches of a choice 
 rose tree. It had been transplanted by her 
 own hands, on the very day, succeeding the 
 evening, on which the disclosure of their love 
 had taken place, and they had pleased them- 
 selves with the idea, that the flower would 
 blossom about the time when they should be 
 formally betrothed to one another — and now 
 two beauteous buds were just appearing, giv- 
 
 VOL. I. M
 
 244 THE gambler's wife, 
 
 ing promise of full blown roses in less than a 
 fortnight. 
 
 " Maud," said Arthur, as he took her hands 
 in his, '' those roses were planted as emblems 
 of hope and love for future years ! when I 
 return to claim this precious hand, and with it 
 the precious heart you promised to bestow on 
 me — let me see one of those roses in your 
 hair, as a sign that your heart is the same — 
 unchanged — as it was in that hour — when you 
 made me so happy. Oh ! my beloved — my 
 own Maud, let the bright flower greet me on 
 my return, speaking of joy and faith — telling 
 me that your love was true and constant — 
 not a moment's phantasy — a dream — a brief 
 dream — that — " and the colour mounted to 
 his temples, and his eyes flashed with enthu- 
 siasm. 
 
 Arthur Balfour did not see the vivid crimson 
 rivalling his own, which overspread Maud's face 
 and brow — for she bent over the rose tree.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 245 
 
 her long ringlets completely concealing her 
 countenance ; but she interrupted his speech 
 in a quick, cold tone of voice, which sounded 
 painfully on his ear, saying — 
 
 *' Arthur, even on the very eve — the very 
 moment of your departure, you still torment 
 me with doubts and suspicions ;" then in an 
 assumed tone of careless gaiety she continued, 
 " But I hate scenes, so let us talk on other 
 subjects. — I will certainly wear one of the 
 roses in my hair, if it will gratify you, and 
 the other shall be presented to you accompa- 
 nied by a couplet of verses hailing you as Cap- 
 tain Balfour. But perchance the roses may be 
 blighted before they arrive at full perfection 
 — or some audacious mortal may take a fancy 
 to them — and then," she continued in a tone of 
 feigned alarm, " what is to be done ? what 
 will be the fatal consequences — with what care 
 — what anxiety must I guard these precious 
 buds — or never since the fearful tragedy of 
 * Beauty and the Beast'— or the wars of the 
 M 3
 
 246 
 
 roses, will the queen of the flowers have created 
 such commotion and disaster." 
 
 There is nothing that more completely gives 
 the death-blow to romance or sentiment, as 
 raillery or ridicule. Arthur Balfour coloured 
 and felt almost ashamed of his late enthusiasm, 
 and by the time the carriage, which was to 
 convey him away, was heard to drive up, he 
 had forced himself to assume the same light, 
 gay tone and manner as his companion. 
 
 But then the sinking of his heart returned, 
 and with a faltering voice and blanched lip, he 
 faintly murmured his farewell. — Empires — 
 worlds would Arthur Balfour have given for 
 one tear — one speaking sign in return — but 
 no ! — though there was a proper look of sad- 
 ness and sorrow, on the part of Maud, it did 
 not wholly satisfy him. — He thought he was 
 entitled to a warmer adieu, than the mere 
 pressure of the hand — he would have ventured 
 to impress a kiss on her lovely cheek, but with 
 a smile and a blush she turned away her head.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 247 
 
 However when the last moment came, when 
 Arthur rose to depart — when she had listened 
 to his final — tremblins; words of affection — and 
 beheld his pale face and glistening eye — a feel- 
 ing of greater tenderness and grief appeared 
 to pervade her heart, and in a soft tone, which 
 was like balm to the wounded heart of poor 
 Arthur, she exclaimed : 
 
 *' Write to me Arthur, and do not be long 
 away— Grod bless you Arthur !" and thus they 
 parted. 
 
 As Arthur Balfour passed through the vesti- 
 bule on his way to the carriage, he remembered 
 he had yet one more adieu to make — and in 
 the midst of his grief he reproached himself, 
 for even for a moment forgetting his dear, 
 gentle May.— He was preparing to seek her, 
 when he heard his name softly pronounced, 
 and she hastened to meet him. Arthur took 
 her hand and led her into the drawing-room. 
 
 '* Arthur ! I thought you had gone without 
 wishing me good bye," she said with a forced
 
 24S THE gambler's wife. 
 
 smile, but she was deadly pale, and he saw 
 tears upon her cheeks. 
 
 '' And could you believe that I should forget 
 you May, whom I love already as a sister?" re- 
 plied Balfour. 
 
 The fair girl looked up in his face, with an 
 expression, which was like a gleam of sun- 
 shine, but the next moment she sighed heavily. 
 " And will you love me as a brother, May ?" 
 Balfour continued, *' when I return to claim 
 Maud as my wife — will you be as kind, as you 
 have ever been to me, since the evening when 
 we first met by the lake's side ? And will you 
 promise in my absence" and he spoke in an 
 earnest, almost solemn tone, " to take care of 
 your sister? Let her not forget me, May," he 
 added in a deep low voice " to no other ears 
 but yours would I breathe what I am about to 
 say. There have been moments — agonising, 
 maddening moments, when the torturing sus- 
 picion has sprung up within my heart — that 
 — that — that your sister loved me not — aye
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 249 
 
 even that she loved another!" He paused, 
 apparently expecting an indignant exclamation 
 from his listener — but in a hesitating and em- 
 barrassed tone, she murmured : 
 
 '' Oh Arthur, Arthur, do not speak thus ! 
 she does I hope love you— indeed she does— 
 but—" 
 
 Arthur interrupted her by pressing her in 
 his arms as he would have done a favorite 
 sister, kissing the lips that had pronounced the 
 precious words. 
 
 *' Thank you for those reviving words, 
 darling May,^' he exclaimed, but when he 
 released her from his embrace, he beheld her as 
 pale as monumental marble. " Why do you 
 look so sad," he continued, " are you not glad 
 that Maud loves me ? do you not wish me to 
 be your brother ?" 
 
 " Oh yes Arthur," she replied, '^ can you 
 doubt it ? — but I know not why it is, a dark 
 cloud as it were seems hanging over us — as if 
 some fearful event would happen during your
 
 250 
 
 absence. — I do feel sad — very sad. — Oh ! do 
 not ! pray do not remain long away." 
 
 '* Thank you May !" he said in an absent 
 manner, as he fixed his eyes with a penetrating 
 glance, on her blanched cheeks, now bathed in 
 tears, and listened to the painful heavings of 
 her beating heart. The truth was, that Balfour 
 ruminated on the question which suggested 
 itself to his mind — '' Why this parting should 
 be so unlike another ?" 
 
 He then began to talk of her mother, attri- 
 buting much of May's dejection to anxiety on 
 her account, and spoke cheeringly of the hope 
 he still entertained, that the approaching fine 
 weather would restore her to health — but the 
 dreadful thought of her beloved parent's danger, 
 had never once crossed her mind, therefore she 
 seemed more terrified than comforted by what 
 Arthur said on that subject. He quickly per- 
 ceived this and spoke of other topics. 
 
 " May," he said, «' I parted from Maud all 
 smiles, and I believed them to be omens of
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 251 
 
 future happiness, but your tears and sadness 
 have banished all idea of smiles, — I shall 
 depart wretched and dejected. What is the 
 cause of this deep sorrow ? tell me I beseech 
 you !" 
 
 " Perhaps I may be very silly — very weak," 
 she replied. 
 
 At this moment a servant was heard ap- 
 proaching, — " I must go," he hastily exclaimed, 
 and as he turned to depart, his eye happened 
 to rest upon a large mirror, in which was re- 
 flected a view of the walk leading to the con- 
 servatory — a cloud came over his brow. — Pro- 
 mise me" he said, seizing the hand of May and 
 pressing it within his own, whilst his voice was 
 agitated and earnest in the extreme, " promise 
 me to be constantly with your sister when I 
 am away. — Go to her now — I left her in the 
 conservatory. Oh, May, do not— do not let her 
 — forget me — if you love me !" 
 
 " That indeed she shall not, if aught I can 
 do will prevent it," was the answer, whilst May 
 M 5
 
 252 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 lifted her tearful eyes to Arthur's face. '' But 
 again I entreat you, be not long away." 
 
 Arthur once more looked enquiringly at 
 her, but a servant entered to announce that the 
 carriage had been ready some minutes, and im- 
 pressing a last kiss on her fair forehead, he 
 murmured again, the words, "go to your sister!" 
 and then left her. But did May obey Arthur's 
 entreaties — did she at once seek her sister ? No, 
 she stood rapt — without motion — listening 
 to the carriage wheels, as the sounds died gra- 
 dually away in the distance and then she 
 raised her head ; but the object upon which her 
 eyes fell by chance, again plunged her into a 
 profound fit of musing, which lasted some 
 time. 
 
 The bright afternoon sun was streaming 
 into the room, and shed its light on a large 
 picture which hung opposite to her. It repre- 
 sented a beautiful boy of about ten years old, 
 with his arms twined lovingly round the neck
 
 THE Gambler's wife. 253 
 
 of a fair delicate child that leant her head 
 against his shoulders — her golden ringlets 
 through which he carelessly passed his fingers, 
 mingling with his short, crisp, chesnut curls — 
 her large, soft, hazel eyes were lifted up to his 
 face with a look of almost venerating affection, 
 but his eyes were turned away. They 
 rested with a supplicating expression on a third 
 figure in the portrait, another little girl, who 
 stood at a short distance from him, her head 
 erect — her sunny locks flung back — her round 
 dimpled arms waving an adieu, whilst in her 
 dark, lustrous orbs, there was a half mocking 
 — half triumphant air, which seemed to say, 
 " I am going to leave you, and I well know the 
 pain I shall inflict." May gazed on the group, 
 till the warm life blood had mantled her pale 
 face, and a long, deep drawn sigh heaved from 
 her breast. The sigh was for the blue eyed 
 boy — not for the gentle baby-girl — but whilst 
 she gazed and pondered, varying expressions, as
 
 254 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 diversified as the shadows on the hills, passed 
 over her countenance, and contending — over- 
 powering sensations, caused her heart to swell 
 almost to agony, and tears to overflow.
 
 255 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 " If ever angels walked on weary earth 
 
 In human likeness, thou wert one of them." 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 When Arthur Balfour first became sensible of 
 the state of his feelings towards Maud Suther- 
 land, from scruples of honor and delicacy, he en- 
 deavoured to stifle the growing passion, by fly- 
 ing from the dangerous presence of her he 
 loved. He walked, he rode, he sat by the side 
 of May, even as he had done in the days of
 
 256 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 their familiar childhood I Arthur Balfour pos- 
 sessed no innate vanity and never dreamt of 
 danger to the heart of the calm, seemingly, 
 passionless being by attentions so tender, yet 
 lavished with a brother's spirit, nor could any 
 one have guessed that a wound had been in- 
 flicted — no, not even May was aware, that her 
 heart had received an impression, which might 
 one day cause her anguish. — All she felt at 
 that moment was a joy reigning within her 
 bosom, which made her step lighter and her 
 heart more gay, since Arthur smiled on her, 
 more than had any other. He appeared to court 
 her society ; he so often called her back when 
 she was about to leave the room, to invite 
 her to walk or to ride ! she thought him noble 
 — good — next to her father the most perfect 
 man on earth, but that was all — she knew not 
 that her heart — 
 
 " Had filled 
 With love, as flowers are filled with morning deif 
 And with the light of morning."
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 257 
 
 Or, if the thought had crossed her mind, it was 
 but a brief dream of bliss, for there came a 
 
 moment! 
 
 She saw the ring which she had hoped would 
 be hers, placed on the finger of her beautiful 
 sister, and she beheld her smiles of happiness ; 
 and then for the first time the secret of her 
 own heart, like a flash of lightning, was 
 revealed to her; for a moment she felt stunned 
 by the blow, and like the flower weighed 
 down by its dew, she bowed her head; but it 
 was only for an instant, for when, hiding her 
 face on her sister's bosom, she listened to her 
 proud, happy recital, the pretty flowret again 
 raised its head, and with a bright smile she 
 congratulated her fortunate sister. She was 
 rejoiced for her, although for herself she had 
 just awakened from a sweet dream, which had 
 passed away she thought for ever. 
 From that hour a new — a different love sprang 
 up in her heart — like — 
 
 " The love with which angels love good men."
 
 258 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 The unselfish girl felt joy in Arthur's happi- 
 ness as if it had been her own ; and when at 
 length a cloud appeared to obscure that happi- 
 ness, with what fear — with what anxiety did 
 she watch its progress ! how many a pang did 
 her soothing influence spare him — how many a 
 bitter word, and cold look which she knew 
 would wound, was averted from him by a 
 " soft word which turneth away wrath," from 
 her gentle lips. And then how many a dan- 
 gerous glance, and still more dangerous tete-a- 
 tete was prevented by May, for with all the 
 quicksightedness of her active, jealous affection, 
 she soon discovered the exact state of affairs, 
 and alas ! the real peril which threatened 
 Arthur's peace of mind. The redoubtable, all- 
 powerful Harry Percy, the practised worldling, 
 had often of late felt his conscience pricked, 
 the colour rise to his cheek, and his eyes sink ; 
 and this effect was produced by^^the quiet, 
 though reproachful tone, or even the penetra- 
 ting stern glance, of the meek, yielding, insig-
 
 THE gambler's wife. 259 
 
 nificant girl, for such he had once considered 
 her. But the hearts of men, are not in the 
 hands of men. — May foresaw difficulties rising 
 rapidly round Arthur Balfour, but she could 
 not turn the current of these troubles ; she 
 could only weep for him — pray for him. 
 
 And not alone for him did she weep, but 
 for her sister, the real victim — for her parents 
 — whose dearly cherished hopes, threatened to 
 be totally frustrated, and yet they did not — 
 could not see the coming storm. 
 
 It seemed so strange — their blindness ! her 
 father too, usually so clear-sighted and ob- 
 servant ! but his eyes — heart — and soul, were 
 at this time centred in her invalid mother, and 
 indeed his noble nature was the last to har- 
 bour suspicions injurious to the honour of 
 another. Often did May long to speak to 
 him on the subject — to warn him of the ser- 
 pent he was cherishing in his breast, but she 
 dreaded, poor girl ! to bring the thunderbolt 
 down upon their heads — to crush their hopes
 
 260 THE gambt.er's wife. 
 
 which were so bright— she had shrunk from being 
 herself the means of waking from their happy 
 dream her unconscious parents — and now it 
 was too late. — She too well knew the nature of 
 her sister's disposition, too well she also 
 knew that interference now would avail but 
 little. Opposition — reproach would only fur- 
 ther excite the fire which was kindling in her 
 heart. No ! May felt that she was power- 
 less to avert the impending evil; she must 
 tremblingly await the crisis, and leave the 
 result to Him " who alone ruleth the hearts 
 of men." 
 
 It was thus she thought, as she stood gazing 
 on the picture before her, when Arthur de- 
 parted, and with a tearful sorrowful sigh, 
 she murmured, '' Oh Arthur — why did you 
 love that cruel little beauty, instead of — " and 
 then the vivid blush mantled her pale 
 cheek, '' instead of her, who would never have 
 given you the pain — the grief, which I fear 
 you are doomed to suffer — who would have
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 261 
 
 loved you. But she does love you dearly, as 
 did that quiet, little girl, you are sheltering in 
 your arms, and she will try her best, (would 
 that she could do more) to turn away the 
 threatening storm." 
 
 And then May remembered Arthur Bal- 
 four's last injunction, and blamed herself for 
 having disregarded it. She hastily brushed 
 away her tears and left the room to seek her 
 sister. 
 
 Alas ! May, why did you tarry so long ? — 
 She found her, but not alone.
 
 262 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIIL 
 
 " I'll tell thee" said the old man, " what is life. 
 A gulph of troubled waters— where the soul, 
 Like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves 
 Of pain and pleasure, by the wavering breath 
 Of passions — ." L. E. L. 
 
 When Maud turned away after her cold fare- 
 well to poor Arthur Balfour, and had listened 
 to his footsteps till they quite died away 
 — she seated herself on a low flower-stand
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 263 
 
 which was near, and heaved a long, deep 
 sigh. 
 
 But it was not sorrow that called it forth 
 — she sighed to think that she should actually 
 experience a feeling of relief at the departure 
 of one, whom she had loved so well ; she sighed 
 to think how changed was her own heart. — 
 She remembered her emotion on the previous 
 evening — the tears she had shed — the happi- 
 ness she had enjoyed when, for a brief space, 
 those softer emotions had re-entered her heart, 
 she now felt that the feeling had only been 
 " a touch of light — a tone — a song." " The 
 sweet enchantment" was now all gone, gone for 
 ever ! '^ But why," she exclaimed, a proud 
 smile curling her lip, " why should I sigh 
 and grieve for having shaken off the chains of 
 love ? After all, liberty is delightful, and I 
 am still unfettered !" 
 
 But did she feel herself free ? One chain 
 had indeed fallen from her heart, but was there 
 not another there ?
 
 264 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 A footstep was heard approaching. — 
 
 " She flung from her forehead its curls of bright hair, 
 Ere those ringlets fell round her, another was there ; 
 Red flushed her cheek's crimson and dark drooped her eye, 
 A stranger had said, 'twas her lover stood by." 
 
 It was Harry Percy with a brow of care — 
 arms folded — eyes bent to the ground, and his 
 mind probably filled with harassing visions of 
 importunate creditors — crushed hopes — vain 
 regrets of the past !— fit meditations for the 
 ruined gambler. 
 
 There was a natural start — a surprised ex- 
 pression, in the dark, arched eye-brows, as he 
 suddenly raised them — a melancholy but sweet 
 smile, as the form of the beautiful heiress met 
 his gaze — the young cousin whom he caressed 
 and loved as a child — the daughter of her who 
 had been the companion of his infancy, and of 
 a father, who had been his generous benefactor 
 and best friend ! Then why such sentimental 
 agitation on his part, and why that rapid change 
 of colour, that strange tremor on hers ?
 
 265 
 
 Never since the drive home from the ruined 
 castle had the cousins found themselves tete-a- 
 tete — indeed they had seemed mutually to avoid 
 each other, and even now when Harry Percy 
 stood before her and said in a hurried voice, 
 " I fear I am an intruder, Maud," she made a 
 movement as if to depart, and faintly uttered 
 the w^ords, '* I am going to Mama." 
 
 '* One moment first," he continued, '^ surely 
 as a cousin!^ and he laid a stress on the last 
 word and paused for an instant, fixing his eyes 
 on his listener, " a cousin^ and one who loves 
 — loves you — as — as — a beloved — shall I say 
 sister ? I may congratulate you on the pro- 
 spects in store for you." 
 
 For the first time she lifted her large eyes to 
 his face ; an eager, disappointed enquiring — 
 almost angry expression, gleamed in those 
 sparkling eyes, and plainly said, '* Do you con- 
 gratulate me ?" 
 
 But she only bowed her head proudly, and 
 as she plucked to pieces the blossoms of a cape
 
 266 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 jessamine, and scattered the snow white, per- 
 fumed leaves on the ground, quickly answered 
 '' Thank you." 
 
 Earnestly did Harry Percy again look upon 
 Maud Sutherland, and for a few moments he 
 spoke not — then in a deep agitated tone he ex- 
 claimed, 
 
 " Cruel — cruel girl — as carelessly as those 
 fair fingers have scattered the blossom of that 
 flower to the winds, have you dispersed my 
 visionary hopes of bliss — by those two little 
 words you acknowledge that my fate is decided 
 — but no matter — in a few days I depart." 
 
 Hurriedly — vehemently was another flower 
 sacrificed, and the delicate leaves flung away — 
 but no word was spoken. 
 
 " It is dangerous — it is wrong for me to 
 remain longer here," pursued Percy. " Oh 
 Maud why did you not send me sooner from 
 you ?" 
 
 He paused for a reply — and at last she mur- 
 mured,
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 267 
 
 " Why should I Harry ?" 
 
 Yes, I shall depart !" he continued, *' and 
 therefore I will — I must speak, only once, of 
 all I feel, ere I plunge again into the troubled, 
 poisonous stream of the deceitful world, there to 
 endeavour to drown— to root out of my 
 memory, the vision of the beautiful — the peer- 
 less angel, whose purifying influence revived 
 in my soul feelings of holier — better things — 
 of a brighter — more virtuous existence — who — " 
 
 '' Harry !" interrupted Maud, in an agitated 
 and reproachful voice, " Harry !" 
 
 ** Pardon me — forgive me," he continued, 
 " I will try to be composed — calm— calm as 
 your young lover \ But did he ever — could he 
 ever feel as I do now ? Listen, and then if 
 youwill — then dismiss me — that moment I leave 
 you — aye and for ever !" Maud spoke not, 
 and Harry Percy continued with more than 
 his usual rapidity and energy. " When I first 
 entered the world, Maud, young and as yet un- 
 contaminated, I loved a bright and lovely being 
 
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 268 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 — I then stood upon the brink of the abyss 
 which has since proved my ruin. Had one 
 loving hand been stretched forth to save me, I 
 might have been preserved from the disaster- 
 ous course into which I plunged. On my knees 
 
 I asked for that hand Julia Bernard was 
 
 prudent above her years, her temperament was 
 calm — cold — calculating ! but to do her justice, 
 it was not merely selfish feeling, which dic- 
 tated her conduct ; she was amiable and felt 
 solicitous for my future welfare ; she told me 
 plainly and firmly that she loved me, but that 
 she also valued her own happiness, and there- 
 fore never would wed a gambler — her hand 
 and heart were mine, if I solemnly determined 
 never, never more from that day, to touch a card 
 — approach a hazard-table — never to set my 
 foot upon a race course — in short to abjure all, 
 and every description of gaming. I vowed 
 — I promised, but that very evening excited 
 by wine, and my joyous thoughts, I was 
 tempted and persuaded by those subtle
 
 269 
 
 enemieSj my companions — I consented, for the 
 last time, to hold the dice box and throw a fare- 
 well coup ; Julia I remembered had said 
 ' from that day !' However, I played, and that 
 eveninor fortune favored me — I won an im- 
 mense sum. This sum I determined to dedi- 
 cate to my lovely Julia, and on the following 
 morning purchased a parure of diamonds 
 worthy of an empress. I laid them at her feet 
 — but never did goddess spurn a polluted 
 sacrifice with more indignation, than did the 
 cruel, cold hearted girl. My jewels, she called 
 the fruits of iniquity, and resolutely cast them 
 from her, declaring solemnly that she never 
 would become a partaker of my guilt, by ac- 
 cepting the wages of sin — that she would never 
 be my wife ! and then in softened accents — in 
 pitying words, more galling, more hard to en- 
 dure than reproach or harshness, she bade me 
 leave her for ever ! I departed" he continued 
 vehemently, '' and maddened by disappointment, 
 and totally reckless of consequences, only 
 N 3
 
 270 
 
 sought to drown my bitter thoughts in the in- 
 toxicating pleasures of the world. I plunged 
 deeper than before into the fatal gulph. I 
 gambled day and night. I became in short 
 the world's slave, instead of its idol— but what 
 are its idols but its slaves ? while daily, hourly 
 I loathed more and more the thraldom which 
 so firmly fettered me." Maud listened with 
 mute and absorbed interest to this painful 
 narrative. Harry Percy seemed wound up to 
 the highest pitch of excitement, and scarcely 
 paused for breath as he thus made a confession 
 of his past and present feelings. " Fate — for- 
 tune to mock me — to torture its wretched 
 victim, at length led me here— to Paradise on 
 earth, and I beheld angels bright, and pure, 
 and one most beautiful, whose presence, whose 
 companionship, has infused into my soul a 
 breath of Heaven. The world and its vanities 
 vanished from my sight — I dreamt again my 
 early dream of love, but holier — lovelier was 
 that dream. Alas I the vision was soon dissi-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 271 
 
 pated —destroyed ; not by witnessing the cold 
 love bestowed upon her by another — no, for 
 could that be love which responded so ill with 
 the overwhelming emotion which was burning 
 within my heart ? One word frora the favored 
 youth relieved me from all fear of his ardent 
 love." Maud looked up enquiringly. '* Some 
 one spoke of you," pursued, eagerly, Harry 
 Percy, *' and in so doing used the word per- 
 fection. ' Perfection !'" exclaimed Balfour, with 
 a calm smile, '* no not perfection, far from it— 
 in beauty perhaps she may be so — but perfec- 
 tion is not expected or required in a mortal 
 woman — defend me from what is called a per- 
 fect wife !' " Maud till now had sat immovea- 
 ble, her large eyes distended, the colour fading 
 gradually from her cheeks to the same hue as 
 the marble statue of Flora, against which she 
 leant her head, but now, they flushed with a 
 bright crimson tint, her eyes flashed, her lip 
 curled with anger. " 1 was awakened," Harry 
 Percy proceeded to say '* from my dream of
 
 272 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 enchantment, by your excellent father — by 
 your angel mother ;— they told me they had 
 secured the happiness of their child — her future 
 welfare for life — and how had this been accom- 
 plished ? They said that from infancy, you and 
 your young relative had been destined for each 
 other, that the late Mr. Sutherland had ex- 
 torted a promise from them on his death-bed 
 to that effect, in order that the son of his other 
 grandson might benefit by his property. How 
 skilfully has the fortunate youth furthered 
 their views, by coming here on hearing of this 
 scheme, and so conveniently falling in love 
 (as he would deem his cold preference) with 
 the very being intended for him, who though 
 not perfection, may, by his judicious manage- 
 ment so become, in time." 
 
 " And she," exclaimed Maud, starting up, 
 her eyes glistening like sparks of fire, " she 
 
 says Heaven for ever defend me from a 
 
 perfect husband ! Have I then" she continued 
 aloud " have I been as it were, cheated, de-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 273 
 
 coyed into giving my hand to one, who in 
 obedience to command, has deigned to try to 
 love me— who looks on me as a proud, spoilt 
 child, that he contemplates training to the 
 meekness of my sister May ; whom he so often 
 holds up as a model for me to imitate ; whom, 
 had she been the heiress, he probably would 
 have chosen." Harry Percy watched the 
 countenance of the irritated speaker with con- 
 cealed triumph and exultation ; she continued, 
 " Well I remember how he struggled — how 
 he postponed the evil day, which was to decide 
 his fate — how nearly he was on the eve of de- 
 parting, unable make up his mind to the 
 sacrifice of himself. And I — gracious Hea- 
 vens ! when I look back upon that hour 
 I could go mad with anger against myself." 
 She paused, for even at this moment her heart 
 reproached her ; had she not been ascribing 
 mercenary, false motives to one who she well 
 knew was the very soul of honor, the most disin- 
 terested of beings — she felt she was wrong— very
 
 274 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 wrong ! But the words of Harry Percy had 
 stung her to the very soul. " My father, my 
 mother," she added in a softened tone, " how 
 could you act thus— why did you deceive your 
 child ?" 
 
 But it was very far from Harry's intention 
 that in her self-mortified pride and indignation 
 towards others, he should remain unnoticed — 
 forgotten — he therefore calmly but tanderly 
 took her hand, made her seat herself once more 
 and then said : 
 
 " Maud I have done wrong in thus disclo- 
 sing to you, in an unguarded moment, circum- 
 stances of which your parents have not thought 
 fit to inform you -but perhaps it is as well — 
 for I am confident they imagine your heart is 
 wholly Balfour's, or would they, kind and in- 
 dulgent as they are, shackle their daughter's 
 inclination, and sacrifice her to the gratification 
 of their own wishes and schemes ; but I may be 
 mistaken, I may deceive myself — Maud as a 
 brother, I ask, I beseech you answer me," and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 275 
 
 he spoke in a tone as deep, as earnest, as if his 
 very life hung on the reply ; " answer me as 
 you would your father ; tell me and I will 
 depart, and endeavour to pray for your happi- 
 ness, with the deep fervour of a brother — tel 
 me Maud," and his voice trembled and his 
 cheek paled, ** do you love Arthur Balfour — 
 will his love suffice for your happiness — do 
 you really love him ?" 
 
 Conflicting feelings were striving for mas- 
 tery in the bosom of Maud — she felt that her 
 answer would decide her fate — and that now the 
 moment had arrived, and she was on the point 
 of relinquishing for ever the love of Arthur 
 Balfour, she remembered what a love it had 
 been, how she had once valued it — gloried in it 
 — and again hastily rising, she exclaimed in a 
 tone of displeasure : 
 
 " Arthur alone has a right to ask that ques- 
 tion, and he only must hear the answer." 
 
 A long, heavy sigh responded to her words, 
 and then another pause ensued. Harry Percy 
 N 5
 
 276 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 pushed back from his brow his dark hair, and 
 pressed his hand firmly upon it, and Maud re- 
 mained for some moments, with her eyes bent 
 towards the ground. At length she raised 
 them towards Harry Percy — contemplated his 
 attitude of deep dejection, and a gratified feel- 
 ing crept into her heart, which shewed itself in 
 
 " The haughty smile to hide the sigh beneath—." 
 
 which played upon her lips. From between 
 the parted fingers which veiled his eyes, 
 Harry Percy perceived it, and he heaved another 
 sigh— to hide a smile. 
 
 At this moment a gentle footstep was heard 
 and May entered the Conservatory.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE 277 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 *• My heart is filled with bitter thoughts. 
 My eyes would fain shed tears ; 
 I have been thinking upon past 
 And upon future years." 
 
 L. K L. 
 
 May stood for an instant at the entrance of 
 the Conservatory, contemplating, with an un- 
 easy expression on her countenance, the two 
 beings before her. Maud had turned away her 
 head, but Harry Percy slowly raised himself
 
 278 THE gambler's wife, 
 
 from his leaning posture, and extended his 
 hand to welcome her, with his usual easy un- 
 embarrassed smile. 
 
 But no answering smile met his — no hand 
 was stretched forth to receive the one he prof- 
 fered, and tears were glistening in her eyes. 
 
 Harry Percy marked this, and as he drew 
 her towards him, and kissed her forehead, he 
 said : 
 
 " How sad the pretty May flower looks 
 to-day !" 
 
 *' Yes," she said impatiently ; then disengaging 
 the hand he had taken, and turning from him, 
 said to her sister : 
 
 '^ We shall all look sad to-day, for Arthur 
 is gone !'^ 
 
 *' Then you love Arthur very much." 
 
 *' This was said with such a significant 
 glance of the eye, and in a tone of such deep 
 meaning that even Maud turned a somewhat sur- 
 prised and curious look from one to the other. 
 
 But if May were inwardly troubled by the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 279 
 
 abrupt question, Harry Percy must have been 
 disappointed if he expected any outward indi- 
 cation of embarrassment ; for although there 
 was a brighter glow upon her pale cheek, she 
 turned her open, ingenuous countenance full 
 upon him, and said in a clear, steady voice : 
 
 *' I do love him, and who could not, for is 
 he not truly noble — truly excellent ? Yes," she 
 repeated " truly good, there is no deception in 
 his character ; we all know there are some," 
 and here her colour heightened and her soft 
 eyes flashed *' who seem externally virtuous — 
 charming, but in reality are false —deceitful — 
 treacherous !" 
 
 " And such you believe me to be !" he re- 
 plied with a deep sigh, and a tone of such 
 heartfelt despondency, that even May for a 
 moment regretted the bitterness of her last 
 speech, but in the next he had turned to her 
 sister. She heard the whispered words — 
 
 " And do you Maud think this of me ?" 
 and May felt sure that the sigh and melan-
 
 280 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 choly was assumed — other sound, he murmured 
 in her sister's ear — they were too low to reach 
 her own, but she saw the crimson hue spread 
 over that sister's cheek, as she hastily averted 
 her head. 
 
 The murmured words had been " Alas ! in 
 your hands rests my fate — whether my future 
 life is to be virtuous ; you might be my guar- 
 dian — my redeeming angel 1" 
 
 " Let us go to mamma, dear Maud," ex- 
 claimed May somewhat impatiently, *' she has 
 been a long time alone." 
 
 Maud rose slowly and followed her sister to 
 her mother's sitting room, where they were 
 soon joined by Harry Percy. 
 
 How little was that calm, sweet, suffering 
 mother aware, as she joyfully welcomed the 
 trio, what stormy emotions were tormenting 
 each heart ! She listened some time to the 
 agreeable conversation of Percy, but her 
 anxious eye soon observed something amiss 
 in the countenance of Maud. She imagined
 
 THE GAMBLERS WIFE. 281 
 
 she could easily guess the cause of her depres- 
 sion and agitated looks, and she immediately 
 proposed a ride, knowing the exhilirating 
 effect of exercise on the spirits of her daughter. 
 
 " You will have a full hour and a half, 
 before the dressing bell rings dearest, and it 
 will be quite light till then ; I aui sure Harry 
 will accompany you." 
 
 Harry did not offer a great many objections, 
 and rose to order the horses. 
 
 " And May," he said as he reached the 
 door, '* you will ride too, will you not ?" 
 
 May had walked to the window and was 
 apparently gazing on the landscape without. 
 
 '* Will you ride, dear child ? or will you stay 
 and take a turn with me on the terrace ?" 
 asked Mrs. Sutherland. For the first time in 
 her life perhaps, when there was any question 
 relating to the wishes of her mother. May 
 hesitated. '* Oh I see she would like to ride, 
 and it will do her good," said Mrs. Sutherland. 
 
 But no ! May could not endure that her
 
 282 
 
 mother should suppose for a moment that she 
 could prefer any pleasure to that of being of 
 use to her. She looked upon the pale cheek 
 of that idolised parent, remembered that her 
 father was absent, that if she left her, she 
 would be alone, and replied without turn- 
 ing her head from the window : 
 
 '* No 1 shall not ride," but there was a pain- 
 ful, doubting feeling within her heart, as she 
 pronounced the words. 
 
 May, with her mother leaning on her arm, 
 was strolling on the terrace, when Harry 
 Percy and Maud, side-by-side slowly wended 
 their way along the gravel approach, but how 
 different were the thoughts of the parent and 
 child, as they both gazed on the graceful 
 figures of the equestrians till they disappeared 
 from their sight ! 
 
 " A ride this beautiful evening will do Maud 
 good," said the former, " especially with such 
 a cheerful companion ; she looked pale and
 
 283 
 
 out of spirits ; but we cannot wonder at that, 
 can we May ?" she asked smiling. 
 
 May endeavoured to smile in return, but 
 it was a forced, melancholy expression, she 
 could not say she thought the ride would do 
 her sister good. Alas, no ! 
 
 And then she had to listen to her mother's 
 conversation respecting Arthur and Maud, and 
 it made her heart ache to think of the blow 
 which must, sooner or later, fall on her unsus- 
 pecting, confiding mother — that day, on which 
 the veil would be withdrawn — that day which 
 she now felt with grief was fast approaching. 
 A third person had watched the pair as 
 they rode past her, and there was a meaning — 
 an expression in her eyes as she looked after 
 them, as if she had been well acquainted with 
 the secrets of their hearts. Had it been in the 
 days of witchcraft, no one would have hesitated 
 in ranking old Judith amid the weird sisterhood 
 of days gone by. 
 
 As Maud passed " Percy Castle " she had
 
 284 
 
 turned her looks upwards towards the creep- 
 ing vine, the foliage of which was already 
 shooting forth. Did she think of the sweet 
 and sour grapes ? True she turned her head 
 hastily away, but it \vas to avoid a very un- 
 pleasant apparition at one of the windows. 
 From it peeped old Judith, her blear eyes 
 fixed on her with no very agreeable expres- 
 sion, and her harsh demoniacal laugh ringing 
 gratingly on her ears, as Maud gave her horse a 
 quick touch with the whip and gallopped off. 
 
 It brought back vividly to her mind all the 
 incidents of that September morning — the 
 circumstances which had called forth the same 
 discordant sound, and she thought of the change 
 which had been wrought in her heart since 
 she heard it last. 
 
 Oh ! that she had received that sound, un- 
 musical as it was, as a threatening, warning 
 power, calling her to turn from present danger, 
 to seek again the paths of peace.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 285 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 " But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, 
 And secret passions laboured in her breast." 
 
 Pope, 
 
 Another — even now^ she loved another." 
 
 Byron's Dream. 
 
 Three weeks had elapsed — weeks which had 
 been marked by only one apparent and impor- 
 tant circumstance — the illness of Mrs. Suther- 
 land, who had suffered from an alarming 
 attack. The skilful, London physician
 
 286 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 hastily summoned, pronounced the seizure 
 when over, the crisis of her malady, which 
 having happily passed away, tended rather 
 towards favourable results than otherwise ; and 
 though it left the invalid weak and languid, to 
 the utmost degree, still happy symptoms which 
 for some time had disappeared, returned to 
 gladden the hearts of those around her. 
 
 The physician departed, having recom- 
 mended a change to the Continent, as the 
 most effectual means towards her perfect re- 
 covery, and the ensuing month, the proposed 
 plan was to be carried into execution. 
 
 But a day had now arrived which rejoiced 
 the hearts of many at Sutherland Manor. 
 Justly loved, no less by his equals than his in- 
 feriors, Arthur Balfour was about to return. 
 He had been known and esteemed from infancy 
 by the servants, and dependents of the family, 
 and his father was also remembered with affection. 
 Many were the significant smiles which passed 
 from mouth to mouth. They shrewdly guessed
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 287 
 
 that he returned to claim as his bride, the beau- 
 tiful heiress, their future mistress— she whom 
 many of them had held in their arms when 
 an infant — and had watched growing up 
 from the lovely child to the beautiful woman. 
 And he they thought was worthy of her, so 
 young— so noble — so handsome! "Oh the 
 beautiful couple they will make !" was the 
 burden of every tongue, and visions of a wed- 
 ding, such as was never equalled in the hyme- 
 neal annals, floated in the brains of all — from 
 the inhabitants of the servants' hall, to the 
 more exalted territory under the government 
 of Mrs. Power, who \Aith indescribable pride 
 and importance, opened the sacred receptacle 
 containing the wedding veil, which for many 
 generations had graced the brides of the house 
 of Sutherland. 
 
 Maud had often horrified the old lady by 
 hinting at the idea, of being the originator of a 
 new and more modern style of head dress, for the 
 future benefit of her descendants, and made
 
 288 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 her ears tingle with the (to her) discordant 
 sound of Brussels lace, as a substitute for the 
 time-discoloured though splendid point of which 
 the treasured heir-loom was fabricated. Mrs. 
 Power prophecied that no marriage in the 
 family could be prosperous, unless the precious 
 relic bore its part in the ceremony. But 
 where is now the destined bride ? the subject 
 of such anticipated happiness, on whom the 
 thoughts of so many are centred — was she 
 looking out with anxious, eager eyes for her 
 expected lover ? No, she was seated before a 
 large looking-glass, having been attired with 
 more than usual care and solicitude, by her 
 abigail, in consideration of him, who that night, 
 would gaze upon her beauteous lady. 
 
 One circumstance had greatly discomposed 
 Lucy lately ; it was that her young mistress 
 had insisted upon wearing her hair simply 
 braided, so that her chief delight and pride, 
 the arrangement of the luxuriant, clustering 
 ringlets was denied her ; she had that evening
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 289 
 
 sighed after many a vain attempt to induce our 
 heroine to reassume her original coiffure^ which 
 met with such severe rebuffs, that at last, in 
 despair, Lucy had been silenced, and was forced 
 to submit to smooth the envious curls, and 
 endeavour to turn and twist them from their 
 natural course. She supposed it was to gratify 
 some fancy of the expected Captain, but she 
 was puzzled, knowing from good authority the 
 admiration those very ringlets had once excited, 
 '* But then," and Lucy shrugged her shoulders 
 and raised her sentimental black eyes as she 
 mused, " there is no accounting for the freaks 
 and caprices of lovers." And another circum- 
 stance not a little mystified her — Miss Suther- 
 land's spirits and temper had lately become 
 very variable — her mother's illness and the 
 Captain's prolonged absence, might perhaps 
 have been the cause at one time, but now 
 the former was so much iniproved in health 
 that every heart rejoiced — and the latter in 
 a few hours would again be by her side — •
 
 290 
 
 still the quick sighted waiting woman observed 
 in her, none of the joyous eS:citement usual 
 to one so situated as her mistress. During the 
 course of her toilette, she was either plunged 
 in a deep reverie, with her dark distended 
 eyes fixed vacantly on the lovely face re- 
 flected in the mirror before her, whilst she 
 turned again and again a diamond ring on her 
 finger, answering in monysyllables, or by im- 
 patient gestures, any question or remark 
 ventured by Lucy, or in a state of nervous 
 agitation, starting and turning pale at every 
 sound that met her ear. 
 
 However the toilette was at last com- 
 pleted and Lucy had nothing left to do, but 
 to cast an approving glance at her own 
 handy work, and she w^as forced though un- 
 willingly' to admit, that certainly the braided 
 hair displayed to perfection the beautiful 
 contour of that faultless face. She did wish 
 that the bright colour which now only came
 
 THE gambler's wife. 291 
 
 at fits and starts to her cheeks, would remain 
 
 there undisturbed as it used to do. 
 
 ** But perhaps," thought Lucy, who in her 
 
 way was full of romance and sentiment, 
 
 *' perhaps, considering her circumstances, the 
 
 delicate lily whiteness is, after all, the most 
 proper and interesting." 
 
 But the beautiful rose, which freshly plucked 
 stood on the dressing table, and on which she had 
 cast many a wistful glance during the progress of 
 the toilette — how it would improve the tout en- 
 semble! and though not without fear and trem- 
 bling, she removed it from the water, and with 
 the skill of a finished artiste, held it in a becom- 
 ing position on the side of Maud's head, beg- 
 ging her just to look and observe the eflPect. 
 
 One glance was given — an angry and impa- 
 tient gesture, and then in a tone of command 
 which admitted of no resistance on the part of 
 the waiting woman, she desired her to leave 
 the room, and Lucy with a good humoured 
 shrug departed, for she loved her young lady 
 
 VOL. I. O
 
 292 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 too well to be angry at her occasional caprice 
 and temper. 
 
 When Lucyliad left the room, Maud re- 
 mained seated as before. The only movement 
 she made, was to place her elbow on the table, 
 and lean her forehead on her hand. She did 
 not perceive that her sister had entered from 
 an adjoining apartment, and had stood for some 
 time, anxiously gazing on her ; till happening 
 to raise her eyes towards the looking-glass, she 
 there beheld reflected the slight figure of May. 
 The anxious scrutiny of the latter was then 
 exchanged for an affectionate smile, and kissing 
 her cheek May exclaimed : 
 
 " My beautiful Maud must not sit looking 
 so sad and thoughtful, when with smiles and 
 joy she ought to be waiting to welcome her 
 gallant soldier. Come, and let Arthur (as no 
 doubt did our ancestors of old) find his ladye 
 love in the old hall, with all those ancestors 
 looking down upon her, waiting to receive her 
 preux chevalier, I will be your attendant
 
 293 
 
 damsel, and witness your happy meeting- 
 Come ! But first let me place in your hair this 
 beautiful rose, your own emblem — Arthur's 
 rose too, for you planted it together on a 
 certain happy evening." And May attempted 
 to fix it, as Lucy had done, in the bright hair, 
 but though she received not the same repulse, 
 still there was an impatient wave off with the 
 hand whilst she said : 
 
 *' Do not tease me May, I am ill." 
 *' 111 ! oh, nonsense ! but never mind — in 
 an hour's time you will be quite well again, 
 for Arthur will be here !" 
 
 And again she made the attempt to place 
 the rose, and this time she seemed to have suc- 
 ceeded, for she received no check to her endea- 
 vours, and when she had arranged it to her satis- 
 faction she exclaimed : 
 
 *' Now see how beautiful you look !" 
 Hardly had the words passed May's lips, 
 than Maud sprang hastily from her seat, and in 
 o 3
 
 294 
 
 another instant the flower was torn from its 
 resting place and lay at May's feet. 
 
 The gentle girl started and looked pale, nor 
 was she restored to composure by the words 
 that followed, for with eyes vividly flashing 
 and her voice trembling with emotion, Maud 
 exclaimed : 
 
 " It shall not, it must not be there ! — May !" 
 she continued in a lower tone, and fixing a 
 steady gaze on her sister, " May, do you know 
 that he — that Arthur, begged me to let him 
 see that rose in my hair on his return, as a 
 token that I loved him still — as a sign that I 
 was not changed — that 3iy heart remained as 
 once it was —his own — and would you have me 
 raise false hopes — would you have me deceive 
 him ? 
 
 " Deceive him !" exclaimed May in falter- 
 ing accents. 
 
 '^ Yes, deceive him I" replied Maud, " for 
 May I am changed — I love him not," and 
 again she sank upon the chair, and heaved a
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 295 
 
 deep, long drawn sigli, as if in a degree re- 
 lieved of the heavy burden, which pressed 
 upon her aching heart. 
 
 And May fell upon her knees, and burying 
 her face in her sister's lap, murmured in a 
 voice broken by convulsive sobs : 
 
 " Poor — poor Arthur !" A pause then 
 ensued which lasted for some minutes. May 
 was the first to interrupt the painful silence. 
 She raised her face, down which the tears were 
 trickling fast, and with a look of earnest sup- 
 plication, exclaimed in a stifled — agitated voice, 
 " Oh, Maud ! unsay those cruel — dreadful 
 words ; they are not true — oh ! say they are 
 not true !" 
 
 " I cannot May, for then I should speak 
 falsely !" was the reply. 
 
 " And he will return," continued May in 
 agonised grief, " he will return full of joy and 
 hope — and you will tell him — tell him that you 
 do not love him ! — and my father — my mother 
 what will be their disappointment— their sorrow ?"
 
 296 
 
 I cannot help it May — I cannot force myself to 
 love — besides / have been deceived. Why 
 was I not told it was a settled matter, that we 
 were to become attached — that he was invited 
 here for the express purpose — that since chil- 
 dren we have been destined for one another — 
 why was I not informed of all this — why have 
 I been treated like a child ? And you are 
 mistaken May,'^ she continued, '' if you 
 imagine that my rejection, will inflict so serious 
 a wound — no doubt it will cause him to pang 
 at first, that he has lost the heiress, whom he 
 bad reasoned and schooled himself into loving, 
 as much as one so all perfect, could love a 
 being so imperfect as myself. He will grieve 
 perchance to relinquish the honour and glory 
 of subduing my pride and self-will — in short of 
 enacting the part of a second Petruchio in the 
 taming of the shrew. Oh ! I have long seen, 
 and indeed heard what he thinks of me— so 
 dear May do not distress yourself so very much
 
 297 
 
 — we shall soon find some means of consoling 
 him." 
 
 It was now May's tearful eyes that flashed, 
 and her cheeks that glowed, as starting to her 
 feet she exclaimed : 
 
 ** Maud you are cruel — most cruel ! and 
 shamefully do you wrong one, who loves you 
 with equal disinterestedness as fervour ; but 
 I know who it is that has thus poisoned your 
 mind — who has crept like a venomous serpent 
 into your heart, and has deceived you ! and 
 you my sister, have listened to his honied, but 
 dangerous words ; and it is one who has been 
 received with kindness, and confidence, beneath 
 our father's roof, and reaped benefits from him 
 — who professes such love for my mother — 
 such brotherly affection for ourselves —it is he 
 who has treacherously — wickedly robbed 
 Arthur of your heart — who has poisoned your 
 mind with infamous fabrications, and made you 
 think thus coldly — unkindly, of a being so 
 superior — it is— it is — ."
 
 298 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 May stopped abruptly when about to pro- 
 nounce the name, which was quivering on her 
 lipSj for her indignation was turned almost to 
 terror, by the violent agitation exhibited by her 
 sister. The colour which, at the beginnino^ of 
 her speech, had rested impatiently on the 
 cheeks and temples of Maud, now vanished en- 
 tirely, leaving her pale as death ; her whole 
 frame trembled fearfully ; she cowered beneath 
 May's concluding words and hid her face with 
 her hands, as if dreading some fearful shock. 
 
 May reproached herself, for having called 
 forth such painful feelings, and with fresh 
 anguish she beheld in her sister's agitation, the 
 confirmation of her worst fears. She at- 
 tempted to throw her arms round her neck 
 saying, "Forgive me dearest— forgive me !" but 
 Maud repulsed her, exclaiming : 
 
 '^ No ! leave me — leave me ! — you know all 
 — go proclaim it if you please — but I will not 
 endure reproach — nor will I hear him blamed 
 — abused — let no one presume to speak evil of
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 299 
 
 hitn in my presence. — It is enough, I love 
 him !" and she raised her head haughtily, and 
 with an air of firm decision waved May from 
 her. But May heeded her not ; she stood 
 motionless, as if she were petrified ! 
 
 " My father — my mothsr !" she at length 
 found words to murmur, " oh, what will they 
 feel when they hear this ? do you not remem- 
 ber on the first night of his arrival what they 
 said respecting him —how fearfully they spoke 
 of his character, and of the misery that 
 must inevitably devolve on the unfortunate 
 woman who loved him — could you then, know- 
 ing their sentiments on the subject — ." 
 
 " Hush — hush ! I command you May ! you 
 talk indeed the language of one who has never 
 loved ; and" she continued lowering her voice, 
 and fixing an earnest steadfast gaze on her 
 sister, " you know not what it is to be loved 
 by Harry Percy !" 
 
 May again covered her eyes with her hands 
 and shuddered violently. 
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 300 THE GAMBTiER's WIFE. 
 
 '' No !" she murmured, '* thank God I do 
 not ; or rather, would that I had been the 
 object of that love, to save you Maud, from its 
 influence. I hope — I feel that I should have 
 had strength to overcome the feeling, if not 
 for my own sake, for that of those to whom we 
 owe so much affection — such gratitude ! for 
 you well know what wretchedness will be their 
 portion, when the secret of such a love is re- 
 vealed to them. Maud, you reverence your 
 parents. Oh ! for their dear sakes tear from 
 your heart this unworthy passion." 
 
 Maud with indignant looks would fain have 
 interrupted her sister, but May fearlessly con- 
 tinued, " Yes, unworthy I call it, Maud — 
 though you spurn me for thus saying — has this 
 love not made you guilty of treachery towards 
 another ? — ah, think how your parents adore 
 you— you, their first-born — their loveliest — 
 their dearest ! — our sweet mother, how she 
 dotes upon you, and rejoices in the happy 
 prospect she thinks in store for you — her eyes
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 301 
 
 brighten when she speaks of Arthur and her 
 child, and pictures to herself the joyful future! — 
 and will you Maud, dash all this happiness to 
 the ground, and tell her that you love one^ 
 of whom it is impossible she can approve. Has 
 he not wasted the best of God's gifts, given 
 to him to be used to His glory — robbed honest 
 men of their due — and the poor of support, by 
 sinfully squandering his fortune— by the de- 
 vastating sin of gambling and extravagance ? 
 He is wholly incapable of sacrificing any 
 wrongful desire, or selfish gratification, for the 
 sake of others — no one principle of right does 
 he possess." 
 
 " May, I will hear no more of this; you 
 are unlike yourself — prejudiced — unjust !— you 
 know not Harry as well as I do !" 
 
 But May was not to be thus silenced. 
 
 " One word yet ! but 1 will say no more of 
 him. It was not of him Maud I would now 
 speak, it was of my mother! — oh for her precious 
 sake" and here the poor girl's voice faltered,
 
 302 THE gambler's wife, 
 
 and her lips quivered with strong emotion, 
 *' for her sake you will surely try to conquer 
 this dreadful love — think how ill she has been 
 —and alas Maud, the miserable, agonising 
 thought, has lately, often flashed across my 
 mind, that she may not long be with us; indeed 
 she sometimes talks to me so solemnly, with 
 such touching eloquence, as if her mind were 
 impressed with the same sad feeling, yet she 
 fears to grieve us ; this may be but a torturing 
 fancy, but still — still, should that time ever 
 arrive — and we are left — ." 
 
 " But that time will never come for me," 
 cried the impetuous Maud, in a passionate, 
 agitated voice, " to me love, or hate, would 
 then avail nought — I should care for neither, 
 for if my mother died, I should die also I" 
 
 " Oh Maud, speak not so rashly — our 
 lives are not in our own hands," cried May, 
 *' and that is not the way to shew our affection 
 for her. If she died," and May lifted her tear- 
 ful eyes to Heaven, '* we could neither add,
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 303 
 
 nor take aught from her felicity ; she would 
 then we humbly trust be in Heaven, in the 
 presence of her Saviour — in joy unspeakable — 
 inconceivable ! It is now whilst she is here, 
 that alone it is in our power to add to her happi- 
 ness, to save her from many pangs— what sacri- 
 fice is it possible for us to make, too great 
 for such a mother — one whose sole desire 
 since the hour of our birth, has been to save 
 us from a moment's pain— -who would gladly 
 yield up her very life for us." 
 
 May paused too much overpowered by her 
 excitement, to find words to proceed, but she 
 fixed an earnest, supj^licating glance on her 
 sister, which spoke all she would have said. 
 
 Maud was softened — affected ! for the first 
 time during the conversation, tears forced their 
 way down her cheeks. There was a pause, 
 but at length in a sorrowful tone she said : 
 
 " May, I am not like you — not as good as 
 you. It is easy for you to sacrifice your own 
 will and inclination for the sake of others — but
 
 304 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 I have never done so, and therefore find it no 
 easy task. I sometimes think, that even were 
 I to marry Arthur, I could never make him 
 really happy. He is good — excellent! — my 
 self-will, would only make him wretched — he 
 would either despise me, or seek to curb my 
 temper, and tutor me, and that I could not 
 endure — if you knew how galling it is to me 
 to have my will opposed ! Now" you are so 
 amiable, so gentle, yet so sensible — yes dear 
 May," she continued rapidly, and a half smile 
 curled her beautiful lip, " you would suit 
 Arthur so well, you were made for him, and how 
 happy you would be together ! Oh ! depend 
 upon it he would soon recover the pang my 
 rejection might cause him, and learn to love 
 you — nay not learn, for already he considers 
 you perfection, and he would come at last and 
 thank me for the felicity, my faithlessness had 
 procured him." 
 
 *' Maud, Maud !" cried May, hiding her 
 blushing face, " you must not, shall not, talk
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 305 
 
 in this wild, thoughtless strain ; Arthur is far 
 too valuable to be thus cast off, and you wrong 
 yourself and him by thinking that he does not 
 prize you sufficiently. If you only knew how 
 he loved you, you would be convinced, that he 
 would rather possess you with all your faults 
 — and you are a naughty spoilt child," she 
 added, smiling through her tears, '' than the 
 most perfect of human beings." 
 Maud again shook her head. 
 '* May,'^ she said, " knowing as you do the 
 state of my heart — knowing — for there is no 
 longer any use in concealing it from you — that 
 I love another — would you have me bestow on 
 Arthur a hand without a heart, or would he 
 not spurn from him a heart so false and 
 treacherous ? for you would not have me deceive 
 him ; and besides" and she covered her burning 
 face with her hands, '* he — he — Harry Percy 
 alas ! must know that I love him. Arthur I 
 am sure suspected this— he could not have 
 done otherwise. He will ask if my heart be
 
 306 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 truly — wholly his ! Can I say it is ? Can I 
 with those eyes of Harry's fixed on me — and 
 while I hear that voice — that thrilling voice ?" 
 
 " You need not hear it Maud — dearest 
 Maud," replied May caressingly, '' it cannot 
 be love you feel for him, it is infatuation — 
 fascination — tell him to go from hence, or, if 
 you have not strength or courage, I will do it 
 for you — tell him that you have resolved to 
 break the spell which bound you for a short 
 space — tell him that duty — honour, points to 
 such a course — that if his love for you — his 
 friendship for my parents, is sincere, he will 
 leave you — yes, tell him all, and if he still re- 
 tains a spark of anything like upright and hon- 
 orable sentiments, he will instantly depart." 
 
 " But Arthur !" 
 
 '' Tell him all — tell him that your imagina- 
 tion had been excited — your affections for 
 a while decoyed from him — that you are still 
 writhing under the effects of the subtle de- 
 lusion — but that if he loves you sufficiently to
 
 THE gambler's wife. 307 
 
 wait — time may restore it to what it once was." 
 
 " And then ask him to return," interrupted 
 Maud impatiently — " stoop to entreat him to 
 receive my love again ? — no — never — never !" 
 
 '* No, tell him the truth — bid him return no 
 more — and then see whether he will obey — oh 
 try hitn," and May smiled through her tears, 
 for hope was reviving her heart. 
 
 At this moment she heard her father's voice 
 calling her. 
 
 " I am coming Papa," she cried; and hastily, 
 and with trembling hands she fastened the rose 
 in her sister's hair ; and having affectionately 
 kissed her, removed the traces of tears from 
 her own fair cheeks, and ran off, for her father 
 again called her, desiring her to go to her 
 mother.
 
 308 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTEK XXYL 
 
 " Does she love the boy who kneeling, 
 
 Brings to her his youth, 
 
 With its passionate deep feeling, 
 
 With its hope, its truth ? 
 
 No ! his hour has passed away ! 
 
 He has had his day !" 
 
 L. E. L. 
 
 And Maud arose from her chair, and with slow 
 and lingering steps, sought the drawing room. 
 
 As she entered, at the first glance it ap- 
 peared to be unoccupied by any one, but in the 
 next moment, from the recess of a deep bay 
 window, Harry Percy appeared.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 309 
 
 He advanced to meet her and took her hand. 
 She strove to withdraw it, but he held it fast 
 in his, whilst her eyes sunk beneath the earnest 
 penetrating gaze he fixed upon her. 
 
 " Have I then no hope ?" he murmured in 
 a low musical tone, " is my doom fixed for 
 ever ?" 
 
 A pause — no answer came, and with a pas- 
 sionate gesture, Harry Percy loosened his 
 grasp']|of the hand he so firmly pressed, and 
 retreated from her side. With a beating heart 
 and trembling steps, Maud approached the 
 window, and leant for support against one of 
 the marble tables, which stood in the recess, 
 her eyes seemingly riveted on the brilliant 
 sky, on which the setting sun was darting its 
 departing rays. 
 
 But she marked not its marvellous splendour 
 — she saw nothing — she felt alone that the 
 gaze of Karry Percy was on her, as he stood 
 by the mantel-piece, his head resting on his 
 hand. 
 
 Poor May — what availed her words of coun-
 
 310 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 sel,or reproof— they were as little heeded now as 
 the sky that was gleaming on the infatuated 
 girl — their influence was dying away in her 
 heart, as quickly as the brightly tinged clouds 
 were fading into dim obscurity, in the distant 
 horizon. 
 
 The sound of carriage wheels was now heard ; 
 nearer and nearer it came — paler and paler 
 grew the cheek of Maud — how painfully 
 heaved her heart ! — more fixed, more earnest 
 became the gaze of Harry Percy ! 
 
 '' Come Maud, come 1" cried the cheerful 
 voice of her father, " let us go together to 
 welcome Arthur !" and when with faltering 
 steps she advanced to meet him, Mr. Sutherland 
 with a happy smile drew her arm within his 
 and led her into the hall. 
 
 The wheels were now distinctly heard grind- 
 ing through the gravel approach, and in another 
 instant the horses' feet rattled on the paved 
 causeway, and the carriage stopped — the steps 
 were let do wn, with more than ordinary haste and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 311 
 
 eagerness, and Arthur Balfour, with hope and 
 joy beaming on his countenance, sprung out, 
 followed more leisurely by another — it was 
 Lord PercivaL Balfour scarcely waited to 
 shake Mr. Sutherland by the hand, for catch- 
 ing a glimpse of Maud who stood motionless 
 in the hall, as if rooted to the spot, he was by 
 her side in an instant. 
 
 The servants were busily employed in un- 
 packing the carriage, and Lord Percival, know^- 
 ing that at such a moment, his presence was 
 not required, with a passing bow to Maud 
 went on to the drawing-room, where he found 
 Harry Percy, 
 
 And Arthur ! he was by the side of the 
 beloved one— her hand was in his — his eyes 
 were fixed with a look of — oh ! what intense, 
 thrilling enquiry on her face, where a vivid 
 flush was usurping the place of his former 
 paleness, but though her lips moved, no word, 
 no sound of welcome issued from them. 
 
 *' Maud," he exclaimed, and a joyful smile
 
 312 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 passed over his countenance, for he beheld the 
 rose. 
 
 *' A cold meeting," exclaimed Mr. Suther- 
 land, who had viewed it from a distance, '' a 
 cold meeting for cousins and for lovers," and in 
 an instant Maud felt herself in Arthur's arms, 
 pressed to his heart— her lips to his ! 
 
 Did he mark how cold were those lips — how 
 she trembled in his embrace — how constrained 
 was her demeanour ? — Where was the happy 
 look— -the blushing smile- — the kind voice of 
 love that should have greeted him ? Echo 
 might well have answered in mournful accents, 
 
 " Where ! oh where !" 
 
 The servants now entered from the portico, 
 and Harry Percy and Lord Percival appeared 
 from the drawing-room. The former apolo- 
 gised for his uninvited arrival, explained that 
 he was on his w^ay further northwards, and that 
 travelling from town with Balfour, he could
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 313 
 
 not resist the pleasure of passing a night at 
 the Manor. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland, after expressing his sincere 
 pleasure at seeing him, laughingly begged that 
 both gentlemen would have compassion upon 
 hungry souls, and lose no time in dressing — 
 the dinner hour having already passed. Arthur 
 Balfour however, managed to have a few words 
 of affectionate welcome from Mrs. Sutherland, 
 and he was beginning to make many anxious 
 enquiries after her health, when Mr. Suther- 
 land, guessing where he was, entered the dress- 
 ing-room and hurried him off to perform the 
 duties of the toilette. 
 
 In crossing the gallery on his way to his 
 room, he encountered May. 
 
 " Why did you not come to welcome me V 
 he said, after the first greeting was over. 
 
 " You did not want me," she replied, but it 
 was not with her usual cheerful smile. 
 
 " How have you gone on during my ab- 
 sence ?" he said hastily, not able to conceal a
 
 314 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 certain anxiety for her answer, the remem- 
 brance of their former conversation flashing 
 across his mind. 
 
 But before she could even reply to his ques- 
 tion. Lord Percival appeared, and Arthur, 
 startled at seeing him already dressed for 
 dinner, was obliged to run off without waiting 
 for any further information. 
 
 '' Miss Sutherland," said Lord Percival as 
 they walked together towards the drawing- 
 room, '' I almost feared that considering ex- 
 isting circumstances I might be de trop here, 
 but Balfour assured me that such would not 
 be the case, and I was too happy to believe 
 it." He seemed to wish May to speak and she 
 answered, 
 
 '' I am sure Lord Percival we are all de- 
 lighted to see so valued a friend of Arthur's." 
 
 But her words did not seem to satisfy the 
 young man, and there was an expression of 
 mortified disappointment on his countenance, 
 which might have surprised her, had she
 
 THE gambler's wife] 315 
 
 observed it, but her thoughts were otherwise 
 occupied, and she heeded her handsome and 
 titled companion, as little, as if he had been 
 the most insignificant and least prepossessing 
 of men. 
 
 The party were at last all assembled in the 
 drawing-room; but it was considerably past 
 eight o'clock, when they sat down to dinner. 
 When it was announced, Mr. Sutherland, too 
 hungry to stand upon etiquette, seized Mr. 
 Merton's arm and preceded the party, much to 
 the amusement of the rest. Arthur drew 
 Maud's arm within his, and followed. Lord 
 Percival took May, and Harry Percy brought 
 up the rear. 
 
 *^ Were is my other rose ?" asked Arthur 
 with a smile, as he pressed the arm that rested 
 on his. 
 
 " It was blighted," was the answer, in a 
 careless tone, and at the same moment, (was 
 it owing to the unskilfulness of May's pretty- 
 fingers, or was it an omen ?) the rose which 
 
 VOL. I, p
 
 316 
 
 decked Maud's hair fell at their feet, and she 
 crushed it unconsciously with her foot as she 
 passed I 
 
 Arthur would have stopped to raise it from 
 the ground, but she hurried on. 
 
 May saw it, looked down upon it, and half 
 paused, as if she fain would save the neg- 
 lected flower. Lord Percival smiling, said : 
 
 '* I would pick it up for you Miss Suther- 
 land, if I thought a cast-away, withered rose, 
 worthy of your acceptance." 
 
 But it seemed that the broken, fallen flower 
 was not despised by all, for at the dinner-table 
 it decked the button-hole of Harry Percy. 
 This was apparently a trifling, insignificant 
 occurrence, but to one who was looking on, it 
 seemed *' big with import." 
 
 " And how did the dinner proceed ? With 
 so many adverse passions, contending in 
 the hearts of some of the company, 
 could it be a social, cheerful repast ? Into 
 the secrets of the heart it is not necessary to
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 317 
 
 dive, but to outward appearance all was gay ; 
 at any rate bright, sparkling ! How 
 joyous looked the brilliantly lighted room--- 
 the table with its glittering silver — the well- 
 served dinner, surrounded by a party, among 
 which there was not one to spoil the effect of 
 the tout ensemble — not one being, on which the 
 eye could rest without admiration or satisfaction. 
 
 There was the father, still in the prime of 
 life, with his noble, handsome face, on which 
 the cares of the world as yet had left no trace, 
 whose dark hair, there mingled scarcely a 
 shade of grey, and whose countenance beamed 
 with happiness, as he gazed on those around 
 him. 
 
 On the right hand of Mr. Sutherland sat 
 Mr. Merton. Unlike his host, he poor man ! 
 had many a furrow on his brow, imprinted by 
 grief much more than time. He was a widower 
 and childless, and though he had not yet 
 reached the age of sixty years, his hair was sil- 
 very white ; his forehead wrinkled, but the 
 p 3
 
 318 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 benevolent nature of his heart lighted up his 
 countenance, and shone forth in the mild 
 benignant smile with which he contemplated 
 the joys of others. The remembrance of his 
 own deep sorrows did not prevent him from 
 *' rejoicing with those" who rejoice, though to 
 weep with the miserable was perhaps more ac- 
 cordant with his saddened heart. It is not in 
 the gay and joyous scenes of life, that such 
 good men especially shine, but in. dark and 
 troubled hours, in moments of affliction and 
 suffering, and in such scenes we may again 
 meet him. By his side, forming a striking 
 contrast, sat the young soldier, the very emblem 
 of manly beauty. He was perhaps the most 
 silent of the group; he seemed to have no 
 eyes but for the loved one by whom he sat. 
 
 Then there was Lord Percival, all gaiety, 
 and vivacity, especially when he could win a 
 smile from his pretty neighbour May — but at 
 first, to his sprightly sallies, and animated ques- 
 tions, he had gained only inappropriate, and
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 319 
 
 abrupt answers ; her eyes were anxiously 
 turned towards others of the party. All however 
 seemed to be going on so prosperously, that 
 she caught the spirit of the company and 
 chatted gaily with the handsome young noble- 
 man. 
 
 And Harry Percy ? Unlike Arthur he had 
 eyes — ears — words for all ! Never had his 
 spirits appeared so elevated — his conversation 
 so brilliant and amusing — his manners so fas- 
 cinating — so charming ! Even Mr. Merton 
 listened with pleased admiration whilst he so 
 eloquently talked, and forgot, in the pleasure 
 of the moment, that such plausible sentiments 
 and opinions, proceeded from the mouth of one 
 of the very class, which should especially come 
 under the influence of his charitable censure. 
 
 In her mother's place, between Harry Percy 
 and Arthur Balfour, sat our heroine — how 
 changed since the moments of previous agita- 
 tion, when the upbraidings of conscience were
 
 320 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 contending with the passionate emotions which 
 strove for mastery in her young heart. Bright 
 was now the glow upon her cheek — the flash 
 of her eyes — the smile upon her curling lip — 
 how carelessly gay the tone in which — 
 
 ** Arrow-like light words flashed from her tongue/' 
 
 the ringing laugh which ever and anon burst 
 from her rosy mouth. Who could have dreamt 
 that all was but — 
 
 " The mask and mantle many wear from pride." 
 
 Even May looked and wondered, and her 
 spirits and hopes began to rise. Could her 
 sister thus dissemble — could she be thus, if 
 she meditated so soon destroying the happi- 
 ness of so many dear to her ? 
 
 The father was also made happy by noting 
 the glad looks of his child — for even he had 
 marvelled at symptoms in his daughter, 
 which had of late almost startled him ; they
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 321 
 
 had evidently been caused by her lover's ab- 
 sence — all would now be right. 
 
 Lord Percival rejoiced for his friend Balfour; 
 and Harry Percy with his penetrating eye — 
 his experience — his deep discernment — his 
 fancied knowledge " of the secret of the prison 
 house," of which he held the key — even he was 
 
 astonished, true it is — 
 
 ** That for a cloak, what is there that can be 
 So difficult to pierce as gaiety ? 
 The careless smile, like a bright banner borne ; 
 The laugh-like merriment, the lip of scorn ! 
 Too dazzling to be scanned, the gloomy 
 Seems to hide something it would not avow, 
 But mocking words, light words and ready jest, 
 These are the bars, the curtains to the breast." 
 
 And thus it was with Maud Sutherland 
 during the whole of that evening. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland who was not able to sit out 
 a long dinner, was reclining on a sofa in the 
 drawing-room when the sisters entered it. 
 Maud seated herself by her mother's side, and 
 Mrs. Sutherland taking her hand, said with a
 
 322 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 smile and in a tone of tenderness, which must 
 have sent a pang to her child's heart, 
 
 " My own darling, tell me, are you very 
 very happy ?" 
 
 In a hurried manner, averting her head, she 
 answered : 
 
 '' I shall be so to-morrow — if — if — Mamma 
 — you — will — promise — to — ." 
 
 " Promise what, dearest ?" 
 
 " To be kind Mamma — indulgent as you ever 
 have been whatever may happen." 
 
 There was a look of surprise in the mother's 
 face, as she tenderly kissed her idolized child, 
 and May turned an anxious glance towards 
 them both, then suddenly rose. 
 
 The gentlemen at that moment appeared. 
 Music soon began. Song after song burst 
 forth from the lips of Maud, with wild thrilling 
 melody. How often in after years, did those 
 sounds — that voice of plaintive sweetness, 
 return with painful remembrance to the hearts 
 of those who listened to her- — how often in
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 323 
 
 the twilight gloom, that season of sad- 
 dened meditation — and in the wakeful — fever- 
 ish hours of a sleepless night, did the thoughts 
 of some of that assembled party, fly back to 
 the remembrance of that evening — that bright, 
 sparkling evening. 
 
 The good clergyman as he sat by Mrs. Suth- 
 erland's side, and watched the movements of 
 the beauteous girl, with a sigh breathed an in- 
 ward fervent prayer, that the favoured child 
 of prosperity, might not be led by the glare of 
 earthly happiness, to forget those better things 
 — those more enduring blessings, which the 
 world can neither give nor take away, and as 
 he pressed her hand, in bidding her good night, 
 he murmured in a low tone of affectionate 
 earnestness. 
 
 '' God bless you my dear young lady, and may 
 He shower upon you, with every earthly blessing. 
 His best gifts. 
 
 '* Now one more song, and then we must 
 away to bed," said Mr. Sutherland, 
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 324 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 '' Well ! shall it be a chorus ?" asked 
 Maud. 
 
 " Oh no ! let me hear your voice alone," whis- 
 pered Arthur Balfour as he leant over her ; 
 and he seated himself by her side, while she 
 sang to a light gay air, with spirit and expres- 
 sion, the following words — 
 
 *' Oh breathe not of Love, 
 
 Oh breathe not to me, 
 
 If constant for aye, 
 
 Your love motto must be : 
 
 Where are the things, 
 
 The fairest on earth ? 
 
 Is it not in their change 
 
 That their beauty has birth ? 
 
 Would they be lovely. 
 
 As all of them are. 
 
 But for the chance 
 
 And change that are there ?* 
 
 Breathe no love to me, 
 
 I will give none of mine ; 
 
 Love must light in an instant^ 
 
 As quickly decline. 
 
 His blushes, his sighs 
 
 Are bewildering things, 
 
 Then away with his fetters 
 
 And give me his wings.'*
 
 325 
 
 One glance at Arthur, one graceful wave 
 of the hand, and she was gone, but the words — 
 
 '* Oh breath not of love, oh breathe not to me. " 
 
 were heard ringing through the galleries as she 
 hastily passed to her room.
 
 326 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIL 
 
 *' I have strain*d the spider's thread, 
 'Gainst the promise of a maid : 
 I have weigh'd a grain of sand 
 'Gainst her plight of heart and hand." 
 
 W. Scott, 
 
 Arthur Balfour well knew where Maud was 
 to be found, when with a beating heart and 
 eager steps, he sought her, that he might hear 
 at last from her own lips his doom — he felt 
 that the moment had arrived, which would 
 decide his future fate, and render him either
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 327 
 
 the happiest of mortals, or the most misera- 
 ble being on the face of the earth. 
 
 It was in the conservatory, the scene of a 
 former tete-a-tete, that he sought, and found, 
 the object of his devotion. Passionately fond 
 of flowers, she frequently repaired to this 
 favorite spot, to inspect her cherished plants 
 and exotics, and immediately after leaving the 
 luncheon table on the day succeeding his 
 arrival, she had, as Arthur imagined, adjourned 
 to this beautiful temple, well deserving of being 
 dedicated to thegoddess of flowers. Arthur's ap- 
 pearance did not surprise her ; she had quite 
 expected him, and with calm dignity, which in 
 a better cause, must have been deemed ad- 
 mirable, turned to meet him. 
 
 During a feverish night, and a morning 
 spent in deep meditation, she had, though not 
 without feelings of remorse, contrived to nerve 
 her mind to the full determination, of casting 
 away every particle of weak pity, as unworthy 
 of one, whose will was free — -whose heart was
 
 328 
 
 her own, to bestow, or take away — whose love 
 would not — could not be restrained, or 
 controlled — over which even her parents* 
 wishes, or commands could have no power, 
 
 " I will tell them that I cannot love him," 
 she repeated again and again to herself, *' no 
 doubt it will grieve them, but they will soon 
 see the utter impossibility, of my trying to 
 fulfil the tacit engagement which exists 
 between us, and they will cease to desire me 
 to wed one under such circumstances — and 
 then—." 
 
 But it is needless to trace the arguments 
 by which the infatuated girl endeavoured to 
 stifle the struggles, the reproaches of that 
 inward spirit, which in vain warned her to 
 pause and beware — those admonitory pangs of 
 conscience which at one time had so moved 
 — so tortured her ! Her better genius 
 seemed to have deserted her, and she was 
 left under the dominion of that deadly
 
 THE gambler's WIFE 329 
 
 foe, her own self-will, her own unsubdued, 
 rebellious heart ! 
 
 She listened to Arthur Balfour with calm 
 attention, with dignified graciousness ; she 
 withdrew not the hand so tenderly — so 
 nervously pressed in his, whilst with all the 
 eloquence of his true, noble soul, he poured 
 forth the full expression of the devotion he 
 had before confessed, and which she had once 
 blessed him by accepting, and returning. He 
 had now come he said, sanctioned by her 
 parents, to claim the boon for which he had 
 so long waited — which had been his hope 
 — his life ! for many a weary day ; he had 
 come to supplicate her hand. Still — still she 
 withdrew it not, she even returned the pres- 
 sure as it rested in his, and smiled — yes she 
 smiled, and Arthur thought his happiness 
 was ensured for ever, and with joy uncon- 
 trollable he clasped her in his arms, and again 
 breathed forth his joy and adoration. Maud
 
 330 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 struggled to disengage herself from the warm 
 embrace. 
 
 " Then you believe," he replied with enthu- 
 siasm, *' that I love you — I worship — ." 
 
 '* Yes Arthur," she exclaimed, '^ you do— 
 you shall love me — as a sister, and I will love 
 you as a beloved brother. Nay, stop — hear me — 
 you never had a sister, nor I a brother — and 
 ignorant of the affection which that relation- 
 ship produces— and having nothing better at 
 the moment to occupy our minds," and again 
 she smiled, though her cheek and lips grew 
 pale, and her manner confused. Arthur 
 offered no interruption and she continued, 
 " Drawn together by past associations of our 
 happy childhood, when we were indeed 
 like brother and sister, we foolishly chose to 
 fancy ourselves in love — I was indeed most 
 blameable, and blush with shame when I re- 
 member my conduct. But I have been the 
 first to awake from my dream. You must 
 have observed, that I have been most unhappy
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 331 
 
 of late -—I felt that I had as it were, drawn you 
 into the snare, and that you had worked up 
 your imagination to believe you really loved 
 me — I knew that the awaking from the delu- 
 sion would be painful — Is it not therefore 
 more kind in me to at once arouse you from it, 
 than to allow you, when too late — when bound by 
 irrevocable ties, to discover how much you had 
 been mistaken in your estimate of our mutual 
 attachment. I ought to have said this much 
 sooner, both for your sake, and that of my 
 parents, who by my folly — my cowardice may 
 also have been deceived. Dear Arthur forgive 
 me!" 
 
 More earnestly might she have craved for- 
 giveness eould she adequately have imagined 
 the despair — the agony, with which her cold 
 words had struck upon the heart of her 
 listener, freezing the warm hopes which a 
 moment before beamed so gladly in his heart ; 
 and the proud girl might have even trembled 
 bad she gazed on his countenance, after the
 
 332 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 first stunning sensation had subsided. Could 
 it be Arthur ? 
 
 Truly he could scarcely be recognised as he 
 now stood, his cheek, before so pale, flushed to 
 the deepest crimson, his lips, from which soft 
 words of love, had tremulously proceeded, 
 tightly compressed, his eyes sparkling with in- 
 dignation. He felt he had been wronged — 
 grievously wronged, humiliated, by her who 
 so calmly, coldly inflicted the bitter pang, 
 and this thought called forth all his pride, and 
 anger now was his predominant sentiment. 
 His manner of replying to her was unexpected 
 by the proud girl. He knelt not, he prayed 
 not for a remission of his sentence, he dropped 
 the hand, for which a few moments before, he 
 had so eloquently sued, which he had so 
 tenderly pressed, he fixed his reproachful 
 eyes, full upon her face, and in a voice strug- 
 gling with deep emotion, said : 
 
 «< Forgive you Maud ! You have destroyed 
 my hopes— the happiness of my future life
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 333 
 
 — you have trifled with my feelings, cruelly, 
 most cruelly treated me. Mine is not a bro- 
 ther's love — tell me, and I have a right to ask 
 the question, can you say with truth," and his 
 gaze was like that of the basilisk, " can you 
 Maud sincerely declare, that it was the dis- 
 covery of your sisterly affection for me, which 
 alone has influenced your cruel conduct, or was it 
 rather that you have suffered another, treacher- 
 ously — dishonourably to rob me of that love 
 which once — once your own lips confessed you 
 felt for me !" 
 
 For an instant her cheek blanched and she 
 quailed beneath the words and glance of 
 Arthur, but she soon recovered, and proudly 
 exclaimed : 
 
 *' I acknowledge not your boasted right to 
 question me in this strain, nor will I reply — 
 enough that I love you not — if you reject the 
 sisterly affection I bear you, I can offer you no 
 other," and she drew from her finger the 
 diamond ring, the token of their plighted love,
 
 334 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 and held it towards him. But Arthur turned 
 from it with a shudder, and falling from her 
 hand the little trinket rolled on the ground, 
 and there lay glittering in a corner. 
 
 " You are right," continued Arthur, " it is 
 not you Maud, that I should call to account 
 for this perfidy, but the author of the misery I 
 am now enduring, and he — " and his eyes 
 flashed fire, '* he, the traitor ! must answer to 
 me for the grievous wrong he has done me. 
 Farewell ! the blow has been too hard to bear — 
 I am not fit to remain in your presence," and 
 he turned to depart. 
 
 *' Stay Arthur, on your peril leave me not ; 
 remain I command you," Maud exclaimed, her 
 pride and composure at once vanishing, and her 
 cheek turning pale as death, '' what are you 
 about to do ?" 
 
 He turned again sadly towards her, and 
 paused for one instant, whilst with distended 
 eyes she gazed upon him.
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 335 
 
 *' Tell me then Maud, or I must ask him 
 the question, do you love Harry Percy ?" 
 
 '* Leave me — leave me — how dare you insult 
 me ! Is this your love ?" she cried, her eyes 
 appearing larger and larger, and passionate 
 emotion shaking her light frame, '* what 
 matters it to you who I love ? — but presume 
 not to make use of my name to justify your 
 impotent rage — you mad jealousy ! — would you 
 threaten me — terrify me into loving you — but 
 it will not avail !" 
 
 Her manner became more agitated, the tones 
 of her voice lower, for the crumbling noise of 
 footsteps on the gravel, of the walk of the little 
 flower garden, which led to the conservatory, 
 sent the life blood rushing to her heart. The 
 sound gradually increased until it appeared to 
 the trembling Maud, to have approached quite 
 close to her ; but suddenly for a moment it 
 ceased entirely, and then more subdued than 
 before, was heard by her quick ear, retreating 
 and dying away.
 
 336 
 
 Arthur heeded it not, his mind was too pain- 
 fully occupied with inward thoughts, to observe 
 any outward occurrence. 
 
 But doutless this interruption had the effect 
 of bringing to a more speedy close, this most 
 distressing interview. We will not dwell 
 on the painful conclusion, the expressions of 
 mingled reproach and grief, indignation and re- 
 lenting and lingjering tenderness, which passed 
 during that bitter scene : suflSce it to say, that 
 like all events in this world, whether pleasura- 
 ble or painful, it had its end, and Arthur 
 Balfour with a face of anguish, and a step, how 
 different from that of joyous hope, with which 
 he had entered the conservatory, departed from 
 the presence of her whom he had so fondly 
 loved, and who had so cruelly deceived him ; 
 and Maud with a pang of remorse, she could 
 not stifle, sunk on a low seat, covered her 
 face with her hands, and sobbed passionately 
 and violently. 
 
 Lord Percival was standing in the hall,
 
 337 
 
 giving some orders to his servant regard- 
 ing his departure, which to take place almost 
 immediately, his travelling carriage being 
 already at the door, though the post horses 
 had not yet been put to, when Arthur passing 
 by, accosted him : 
 
 ** Percival, if you will only wait half an hour, 
 I will accompany you as far as C ." 
 
 " You will ? I shall be delighted to take 
 you with me," exclaimed Percival ; but his 
 countenance changed, when he looked up and 
 beheld that of his friend. As if in answer to 
 the enquiring look Arthur saw depicted in his 
 cousin's face, he hastily said : 
 
 '' I have business at C , and shall be 
 
 quite ready in half an hour ; I have something 
 to say first to Mr. Sutherland." 
 
 And he passed on, and meeting his servant 
 in the gallery, desired him immediately to pre- 
 pare his portmanteau.
 
 338 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 " Oh ! farewell then 
 The faithless dream, the sweet yet faithless dream, 
 That Miriam loves me." 
 
 MiLMAM. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland and May had repaired to 
 the library, the former having a letter to dic- 
 tate : they were soon joined by Mr. Suther- 
 land. 
 '* Have you seen this paragraph ?" said the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 339 
 
 latter putting his finger on the part indicated, 
 as he handed to her the Morning Post. 
 
 May read as follows : 
 
 " Marriage in high life. — Capfain Arthur 
 Balfour of the Grenadier Guards, left town 
 yesterday for Sutherland Manor, the seat of 
 Mark Sutherland Esq., in Cumberland; the 
 preliminaries of Marriage, being about to be 
 arranged between this gentleman and the 
 beautiful and highly accomplished Miss Suther- 
 land, one of the most richly endowed heiresses in 
 the kingdom. Captain Balfour's father, first 
 cousin to jMr. Sutherland, changed his name 
 to that of Balfour, on marrying Lr.dy Char- 
 lotte Balfour, only daughter of the Earl of 
 Balfour, and half sister to the present Earl. 
 The gallant Captain is in his twenty-fourth 
 year, and the young lady has not attained her 
 nineteenth birth day. This marriage appears to 
 give universal satisfaction to the families of 
 both parties." 
 
 " I had hoped the affair had not been so 
 
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 340 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 public," said Mr. Sutherland looking rather 
 grave, *' but it is impossible to avoid such 
 reports getting abroad, whatever one may do. 
 1 prevented Percival reading it aloud at break- 
 fast this morning, and Maud and Arthur were 
 too pre-occupied to think of looking into a 
 paper." 
 
 May made no remark as she returned the 
 Morning Post to her father, but she looked 
 very grave. 
 
 " I do not think," said Mrs. Sutherland, 
 *' that there can be any objection to the event 
 being made public, nor do I see a possibility 
 of the secret remaining one," she added with a 
 smile, '' for I really believe to judge from dear 
 Arthur's face when he left us just now, that he 
 has gone to claim that, which will give us no 
 further right, or power, to keep the knowledge 
 of the engagement concealed." 
 
 Mr. Sutherland did not reply, and he could 
 hardly account for the annoyance which the 
 paragraph had caused him. As he with agi-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE, 341 
 
 tated steps paced up and down the room, he 
 ever and anon cast impatient glances towards 
 the door. Once he met the eye of May, as 
 pausing in her occupation, she fixed her gaze on 
 her father's face, and Mr. Sutherland beheld an 
 answering feeling to his own, depicted on her 
 countenance. He marked too how she glanced 
 towards the door, and how her hand trembled 
 when she re-commenced her writing. 
 
 There was none of this emotion visible in 
 Mrs. Sutherland, as she reclined on the sofa, 
 giving directions to May concerning the letter 
 she was inditing ; she looked calm and happy, 
 though perhaps her delicate cheek bore a more 
 than usually vivid flush, and her large, dark 
 eyes a brighter animation than they had done 
 of late. 
 
 It was thus the trio were occupied, when the 
 door opened, and Arthur with a countenance 
 of almost livid paleness appeared before them. 
 A deeper feeling of confusion and annoyance 
 was added to his outraged heart, when he per- 
 Q 3
 
 342 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 ceived into whose presence he had entered. 
 He had expected to find Mr. Sutherland alone, 
 and the blood rushed from his heart to his very 
 temples, when every eye turned upon him with 
 an enquiring, anxious glance. 
 
 It is mortifying to the nature of man, to 
 have the weaker — the softer emotions of his 
 heart witnessed by a woman ; and under cir- 
 cumstances so humiliating, how doubly painful 
 was it for poor Balfour to find himself in the 
 presence of Mrs. Sutherland and her daughter 
 — but he was too helplessly miserable to post- 
 pone the disclosure of his anguish. 
 
 He approached the mantel-piece, leant his 
 elbow upon it, and said in a broken, husky 
 voice, as he averted his face : 
 
 *' I am come to bid you adieu — I have 
 promised to accompany Percival to C ." 
 
 There was an interval of silence, the pen 
 had fallen from May's hand. — her heart seemed 
 to stop its beating. Mr. Sutherland remained 
 rooted to the spot where he had paused, on the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 343 
 
 entrance of Arthur Balfour. Mrs. Sutherland 
 was the first to break the silence ; her sweet 
 low voice began to speak in tones of surprise. 
 
 " To C , Arthur ? But you are not 
 
 going to remain there what can take you 
 
 to C to-day ? Has Maud" she continued 
 
 with a smile, " has Maud given you leave ?" 
 
 That kind, loved voice inflicted an additional 
 pang on the young man's heart, but remember- 
 ing the weak state of her health, it recalled him 
 to the necessity of caution, and turning towards 
 her his pallid face, in tones of forced calmness, 
 and a smile — how melancholy ! he answered : 
 
 '^ Yes, my dear aunt," for by that title he 
 always called her, " she has !" 
 
 He paused, stooped down, and kissed her 
 forehead, then turning towards Mr» Sutherland, 
 with a quivering lip he continued : 
 
 " We have all been very blind — very much 
 in the dark — I ought not to have felt so secure. 
 I, at least, should have been prepared for this 
 blow ! — but Maud" his voice trembled more
 
 344 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 than ever when he pronounced her name— 
 "Maud has just opened my eyes — has un- 
 deceived me, and as my presence cannot be 
 very agreeable to her, after what has passed 
 between us, I think it better that we should 
 part — therefore — therefore — ." 
 
 He was stopped short in his sentence by a 
 look from Mr. Sutherland, who said in a 
 careless tone : 
 
 " Well Arthur, it might be as well — I agree 
 v^'ith you — you know you can return with me, 
 for I have just received a letter which will 
 
 oblige me to set off for C to attend the 
 
 county sessions, and I may perhaps be detained 
 there a day or two ; and by that time" he added 
 with a forced smile, " no doubt Miss Maud's 
 ill-humour will have passed away, and she will 
 be ready to ask your pardon for her caprice." 
 
 Arthur Balfour well knew the reason of this 
 interruption and the light manner of Mr. Suth- 
 erland. 
 
 Mrs. Sutherland had not spoken, but the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 345 
 
 colour had entirely forsaken her cheeks, and 
 she now turned to her husband and said : 
 
 ^' I think dear, I will go to my room," 
 and supported by him and followed by the 
 weeping May, she departed, leaving Arthur 
 leaning against the mantle-piece in an attitude 
 of the deepest despondency. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland soon returned and drew 
 from him the whole account of the disastrous 
 affair. 
 
 With deep and grave concern he listened 
 to the relation, and when Arthur ceased speak- 
 ing, it was in quivering accents that he en- 
 quired of the young man, if he had any sus- 
 picion as to the cause of the estrangement of 
 his daughter's heart. 
 
 After a pause Arthur answered in hollow 
 tones : 
 
 " I firmly believe, that her affections have 
 been perfidiously stolen from me, by —by Mr. 
 Percy." 
 
 Had Mr, Sutherland suddenly encountered
 
 346 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 the sting of a serpent, he could not have started 
 back with greater horror — the colour flew to 
 his temples — his eyes flashed ! 
 
 Balfour averted his face, for it seemed as if 
 the countenance of Maud was again before 
 him. 
 
 A vague suspicion which had of late, at times, 
 floated through the father's mind, like a dark 
 shadow, now assumed a palpable form, and like 
 a flash of lightning the whole truth stood re- 
 vealed before him. He felt how blind — how 
 madly secure he had been — and self-reproach 
 almost superseded Mr. Sutherland's indignation 
 towards him, who had so basely abused his confi- 
 dence — so ungratefully repaid his kindness. 
 
 Agonising fears for the future happiness of 
 his child, was for a moment his all-absorbing 
 feeling. 
 
 A servant entered to say, that Lord Per- 
 cival was waiting for Mr. Balfour. 
 
 '' Well Arthur," said Mr. Sutherland, grasp- 
 the hand of the agitated young man, *' we
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 347 
 
 shall be both better able to talk over this 
 matter when we next meet, which will be 
 either to-night or to-morrow — in the meantime 
 try to keep up your spirits, my dear fellow. 
 I hope and trust that on investigating the 
 matter, I shall find it not so hopeless as you 
 seem to imagine." 
 
 " I am utterly hopeless," said Arthur with a 
 ghastly expression, " but there is one part of 
 the affair—." 
 
 " Arthur," interrupted Mr. Sutherland, " I 
 know what you would say, but I rely too much 
 upon your generous affection for Maud — for 
 her family, to fear that you would, by any rash 
 act, make her name conspicuous, and destroy 
 for ever our domestic peace ! Arthur !" Mr. 
 Sutherland again exclaimed, seeing by the 
 countenance of Balfour, something which 
 alarmed him, " you love my wife — you see 
 her state of weakness — her failing health — " 
 and here the husband's heart gave way, and the 
 
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 348 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 firm man wept ! '' Would you add to her 
 wretchedness ?" 
 
 " Never !" exclaimed Arthur, ''I would 
 bear disgrace sooner — than — ," he could 
 say no more, and a miserable pause ensued. 
 
 " Rely on my not leaving this house, until 
 every circumstance is sifted, and explained- - 
 and now go Arthur— we unman each other — 
 and after all," he added, endeavouring to 
 assume a more cheerful tone, " we may be 
 making a very serious story out of a spoilt 
 girl's capricious whims." 
 
 On crossing the hall to enter the carriage, 
 Arthur Balfour's name was pronounced by 
 May, who had been sent by her mother, to 
 beg that he would not leave the Manor without 
 bidding her adieu. He followed his fair guide 
 silently through the vestibule, having been first 
 strictly enjoined by Mr. Sutherland to avoid 
 all agitating topics. 
 
 But Mrs. Sutherland seemed to have no in- 
 clination to engage in any discussion on the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 349 
 
 painful cause of his departure. She spoke 
 merely a few faint words of tenderness, and 
 when he murmured his hope of soon again 
 beholding her, she answered not, but after en- 
 folding him in a long fervent embrace, with an 
 earnest voice, she invoked a blessing on his 
 head ; no tear dimmed her eye — but she fixed 
 a long, lingering look upon him as he turned to 
 depart. 
 
 How often in after times, did that last look 
 haunt his memory, and that last blessing fill his 
 heart, with sweet but mournful remembrance ! 
 
 And May, she threw her arms round Ar- 
 thur's neck, and sobbed like a child on his 
 bosom.
 
 350 THE gambler's WIFE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX, 
 
 " Did'st thou but know the inward touch of love, 
 Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, 
 As seek to quench the fire of love with words." 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland watched the carriage, which 
 was conveying Arthur away,roll down the avenue, 
 and then with a heavy heart turned to seek his 
 culprit daughter. But no culprit did that 
 daughter feel herself to be. At that moment 
 her heart was beating with sensations widely
 
 351 
 
 different from those which filled the hearts of 
 the rest of her family. Neither fear, nor un- 
 easiness, nor even self-reproach, any longer 
 troubled her ; she had avowed the love, the 
 concealment of which had so long burdened her 
 mind. She had received the ardent thanks 
 of the man she loved, with infatuated ten- 
 derness — unshrinkingly she met the passion- 
 ate gaze that beamed from those eyes, and list- 
 ened to the full torrent of words which flowed 
 from the eloquent tongue of her lover. 
 
 " She was an angel — the angel, who was to 
 transform — to purify him — henceforth to 
 guide his steps through life, to virtue and hap- 
 piness." 
 
 Thus spoke HSrry Percy, and Maud lent a 
 willing, delighted ear, to the sweet, honied flat- 
 tery, and forgot how little she resembled a 
 pure angel ; she remembered not, that she had 
 blasted the hopes of one, who loved her devo- 
 tedly — that she was a deceiver — a betrayer of 
 confiding affection, and that she was inflicting
 
 352 
 
 the keenest pang of disappointment, on the 
 best of parents. 
 
 To do Harry Percy justice, when he beheld 
 the successful result of his four months' cam- 
 paign — his schemes on the point of realization, 
 he felt a pang of compunction, and also some mis- 
 givings, for he knew that there was still much to 
 be done. He was fully aware of the estimate 
 in which Mr. Sutherland held his character ; 
 he was too shrewd a man of the world, not to 
 understand his position, in the opinion of the 
 upright, conscientious father. With his perfect 
 horror of vice, would he give his idolized child, 
 the heiress of his greatness, to a gambler, an 
 almost utterly ruined man ? True, the will of 
 that child had never yet been crossed — still ! — 
 
 In cold blood had Harry Percy first engaged 
 in this pursuit, but he had completely fallen 
 into the snare which he had with such skill laid 
 for the unsuspecting Maud. He was fairly — 
 desperately in love with the captivating beauty 
 — and now in this moment of triumph, a
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 353 
 
 flash of dormant good feeling, strong, though, 
 alas, evanescent, made him feel how unworthy 
 he was of possessing such a prize, and his heart 
 sank. But when he poured forth to Maud in, 
 energetic terms, his conviction, that he was un- 
 deserving of her, and even implored her to 
 pause — to consider, ere she rashly consented to 
 share the fortunes of a ruined man — to reflect 
 whether she could endure or withstand the op- 
 position of her friends, the censure of the 
 world ; when he unfolded to her the real state 
 of his affairs, how he was even now on the 
 eve of departing for the continent, in order to 
 evade the increasing importunities of his credi- 
 tors, he saw by the proud smile of confidence, 
 that played upon her lovely mouth, as leaning 
 on the arm that encircled her, she raised her face 
 to his, her eyes, now soft and liquid, beaming 
 with happiness, how little she dreaded opposi- 
 tion — how slightly she estimated any of the 
 evils he enumerated. 
 
 '' I am my father's heiress," she exclaimed,
 
 354 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 " all that I have will be yours Harry, and if it 
 were not so, think you I would not gladly 
 share exile and poverty with you .^" 
 
 Again he pressed her to his heart, as with 
 fervour he cried : 
 
 " Then by heaven, my sweet girl, nought 
 shall separate us but death !" 
 
 She laid, her head on his shoulder, and by an 
 answering smile sealed the contract. 
 
 " That is a rash vow Mr. Percy !" said a 
 stern voice behind them, and, ere the words had 
 died away on the speaker's lips, Maud was dis- 
 engaged from her lover's embrace— had raised 
 her head from its resting place ; and abashed 
 and disconcerted, they stood side-by-side en- 
 during the severe, cold gaze of Mr. Suther- 
 land. 
 
 However a very short interval sufficed to re- 
 store the man of the world, to self-composure 
 and ease of manner. He took the hand of 
 Maud, and leading her to her father, with the 
 frank,unembarrassed air of a person wholy uncon-
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 355 
 
 scious of having given offence, confessed his 
 well requited attachment to his daughter. 
 
 '^ And now my dear Mark," he added with 
 a smile, " we only desire to receive from your 
 lips a confirmation of our happiness, your 
 consent to bestow your precious child on 
 one, who, however blameable his life may 
 hitherto have been, solemnly promises that the 
 whole study of his future existence, shall be 
 to promote her welfare — to become worthy of 
 possessing so bright a treasure," and again he 
 pressed her hand to his heart. 
 
 And Maud whilst he spoke regained her 
 composure, and had raised her graceful form, 
 as if in defiance of rebuke or opposition. 
 
 Mr. Sutherland allowed Percy to speak 
 without interruption ; he was silent whilst with 
 his usual rapidity and exaggeration of expres- 
 sion, the excited man poured forth an ener- 
 getic defence and declaration of his passion. 
 
 Harry Percy was gifted with an extra- 
 ordinary flow of words, and most emphatic
 
 356 ■ THE gambler's wife. 
 
 enunciation ; the torrent of his eloquence, 
 was usually effective and overpowering, but in 
 the present instance it made no impression 
 upon his listener, who at length in a stern, cold 
 voice spoke. 
 
 '* A treasure acquired by perfidious means, 
 can never prove a blessing. My daughter, 
 with my consent, Percy shall never be yours — 
 such is my determination. But it may be as 
 well for you to follow me to my study, where 
 in a very short space of time, we may de- 
 finitively settle this affair— and with you Maud 
 I will speak presently." 
 
 [ Percy followed him, after darting an en- 
 couraging look at the beautiful girl, who stood 
 with distended eyes and quivering lips, tightly 
 clenching the marble statue, the pale hue of 
 which she resembled, and against which she 
 leant for support. 
 
 Indignant as Mr. Sutherland had felt, the 
 manner in which Harry Percy received 
 his expressions of displeasure, in a measure
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 357 
 
 disarmed him. In the address of this finished 
 man of the world, there was a gentlemanly- 
 bearing — a seeming openness — a fluency of 
 expression, engendered by deceit, for he scru- 
 pled not to express in the highest degree of ex- 
 aggeration, sentiments which he really did not 
 feel; there was nothing, however preposterous, 
 that he scrupled not to assert ; nevertheless few 
 could listen to him unmoved — few indeed ! 
 On the present occasion, Harry Percy's tact 
 was, not to endeavour to exculpate himself, ex- 
 cept by pleading the strength of his love. 
 Frankly he confessed he had acted unworthily, 
 spared not himself — cursed his wretched fate, 
 which seemed ever to lead him into error — 
 called himself a wretched — unfortunate — lost 
 creature — doomed to ruin — his fortune — his 
 hopes all — all blasted ! 
 
 His eyes were full of tears, and his voice 
 trembled, when he acknowledged the justice of 
 the sentence pronounced by Mr. Sutherland,
 
 358 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 which condemned hiin to put an end to his 
 hopes of ever calling Maud his wife. Ap- 
 parently he listened with patient sadness, and 
 despairing anguish to the decree, that he should 
 immediately depart from the spot where he had 
 so injuriously employed his time. Yes, that 
 very evening he would shew his repentance, 
 by tearing himself away from her he adored 
 —and a few more days would find him a soli- 
 tary wanderer — a wretched exile, in a foreign 
 land. He however sued for a farewell inter- 
 view with Maud, and so well did he . act his 
 part — so contrite — so vehement were his ex- 
 pressions of compunction, that Mr. Suther- 
 land's kind heart was moved, and Maud was 
 summoned to their presence. 
 
 Proudly, with a cheek flushed to the bright- 
 est crimson, she entered, and stood before her 
 father — not as a culprit to hear her doom, but 
 like a queen to demand her lawful right. 
 
 Harry Percy, taking her hand, with all the
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 359 
 
 language of tenderness he could possibly throw 
 into those 
 
 " Eyes of most expressive blue," 
 
 gazed upon her for a moment ; then in tones of 
 the deepest despondency, disclosed to her the 
 entire failure of his hopes— her father's irrevo- 
 cable determination, and final sentence. 
 
 *' Dearest Maud," he ended by saying, " I 
 can only acknowledge the wisdom of that sen- 
 tence. I had indeed, madly dared to aspire to 
 bliss too great for one so unworthy of possessing 
 
 it for your dear sake I leave you — perhaps 
 
 for ever ! I only ask, and surely your father 
 will not deny me this last request — I only ask 
 that you will remember me in your prayers, as 
 one who loved ' not wisely, but too well'— that 
 you will pity and forgive rae.'^ 
 
 He pressed her in a long, fervent embrace, 
 and when again she raised her head, and had 
 in a degree recovered from the sudden dismay 
 
 occasioned by this unexpected scene he was 
 
 gone I
 
 360 
 
 Harry Percy during that embrace, had con- 
 trived to whisper in her ear, other words un- 
 heard by her father. " My sweet girl, think 
 .not that I will leave you thus — we shall meet 
 again ere I depart." 
 
 But she scarcely heeded or comprehended 
 them —she only knew that he was gone ; with- 
 out a struggle he had relinquished — aban- 
 doned her, and the blood forsook her cheek, 
 and her bosom heaved convulsively, though 
 she firmly compressed her quivering lips, and 
 grasped the table near her, in order to con- 
 ceal the emotion, which pride forbade her to 
 manifest to her father. 
 
 ^' Come here Maud," the latter began, after 
 looking sadly on her for a moment. '' Fear 
 no reproaches from me — I only trust, poor 
 child ! that hereafter you may never have 
 cause to repent, having cast from you a love 
 like that of Arthur Balfour's of having de- 
 ceived him -and all of us. You cannot now 
 appreciate the propriety of the line 1 have
 
 THE gambler's WIFE. 361 
 
 taken, but in firmly insisting on the dismissal 
 of the object of your infatuation, I consider 
 that I have saved you from certain misery. 
 Maud, I again declare, as I have done before, 
 little dreaming under what circumstances I 
 should have to repeat it, that rather than see 
 you the bride of Harry Percy, I would prefer 
 following you to the grave — young— beloved 
 as you are. My child, I am not taking a 
 worldly view of the case alone — although I 
 must candidly tell you that his wife would 
 never be my heiress. The disposition of my 
 property is left to my own free will, entirely in 
 my own power — and think you, that I will give 
 the inheritance of my forefathers to be squan- 
 dered, and injured, like the fortune once pos- 
 sessed by Harry Percy ? Never ! — no gam- 
 bler, shall ever own the venerated estate. Let 
 us, however, drop this unhappy subject, and 
 never renew it. Time, and the well regulated 
 mind of my child, will be sure to remove the
 
 effects of the pernicious feeling which for a 
 time has sullied her young fancy," and he drew 
 her towards him and affectionately kissed her. 
 
 But no softening expression — no answering 
 pressure returned his caress; coldly she re- 
 ceived it — and drawing up her head she said : 
 
 " One request, my father, I must be allowed 
 to make ; it is that, henceforth, I may never be 
 tormented by any solicitations or persuasions 
 in favor of Arthur Balfour, and that I may be 
 left in peace. I here declare that no one in the 
 
 whole universe but him 1 mean Harry 
 
 Percy — shall ever call me wife." 
 
 " Maud, you speak like a wayward child," 
 rejoined Mr. Sutherland, a shade of anger 
 flushing his cheek, '' but at this moment you 
 are not in a state of mind to listen to reason, 
 and I am ready to make every allowance for 
 your excited feelings — but I also have a re- 
 quest to make — or rather at the risk of my 
 heavy displeasure, I command^ that neither by 
 word, or deed, you grieve or disturb the peace
 
 365 
 
 of your mother — that before her at least 
 you abstain from any display of petulance 
 or temper. However, in her present state 
 of health I think and hope, that this is 
 an unnecessary injunction. A child must 
 indeed be unnatural who would not, par- 
 ticularly under the present circumstances, make 
 every sacrifice — every exertion — to overcome 
 selfish considerations. Maud, fear not any 
 attempts on my part to force your inclina- 
 tions !" 
 
 The countenance of the self-willed girl ex- 
 pressed as plainly as words could speak, " force 
 my inclinations ! who would have the power to 
 force mine ?" 
 
 Her father read what was passing in 
 her mind — it wrung his heart, to mark tlie 
 fierce, intractable spirit which, for the first 
 time, shewed itself in the disposition of the 
 child, who had been the idol of both parents. 
 
 In a voice in which sorrow was mingled with 
 reproach he said : 
 
 VOL. I. H
 
 366 THE gambler's wife. 
 
 ^' Maud, Arthur Balfour is too good to be 
 forced on one, who I must say, has proved her- 
 self to be wholly unworthy of his affection — 
 and I repeat the words of your dear mother, 
 when, years ago, your grandfather expressed 
 his hopes that you and Arthur might one 
 day be united, * Our children's inclinations 
 on the subject of marriage I could never wish 
 to force.' But, Maud, to restrain their inclina- 
 tions, when they are prejudicial and hurtful to 
 them, is a duty, to say nothing of the right 
 which parents have to exercise authority. I 
 trust, my poor child, you will hereafter thank 
 me for the very act which now makes your 
 heart rebel against me. But " continued Mr. 
 Sutherland, his voice assuming a tone of stern- 
 ness — " on one point I must warn you Maud — 
 I can excuse much, my love for you will 
 induce me to bend a great deal— but remember 
 what I now say — were you to wound the heart 
 of the dearest, and best of mothers by your
 
 THE gambler's wifh 867 
 
 conduct, I solemnly caution you that I never 
 could forget it — nor do I think I could ever — 
 forgive it — so, Maud, beware !" 
 
 THE END OF VOL. I.
 
 T. C. NewBY, Printer, 72, iNfortimer Street, Cavendis^k Square.
 
 September, 184:4. 
 
 A CATALOGUE OF 
 
 NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS 
 
 PRINTED FOR 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
 LONDON. 
 
 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL 
 AFFAIRS. 
 
 Paifes 
 
 Bayldon on Valuing Rents, etc. - - 6 
 ,, the Valuation of Property for 
 
 Poor's Rate 6 
 
 Crocker's Land Surveying; - - - 9 
 
 l)a\-y's Agp-icultural Chemistrv - - 9 
 
 Greenwood's fCol.) Tree-Lifter - - 12 
 
 Hannam On Waste Manures - - - 12 
 
 Johnson's Farmer's Encyclopaedia - - 16 
 
 Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture - 19 
 
 ,, (Mrs.) Lady's Country Companion 18 
 Low's Breeds ofthe Domesticated Animals 
 
 of Great Britain - - - - 20 
 
 ,, Elements of Agriculture - - 20 
 
 ,, On Landed Property - - - 19 
 
 ■\Vliitley s Agricultural Geology - - 32 
 
 ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND 
 ARCHITECTURE. 
 
 Brande's Dictionary of Science, Litera 
 ture, and Art - - .... 7 
 
 Gwilt's Eneyclopsdiaof Architecture - 12 
 Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm 
 and Villa Architecture and Furuiture • 
 Porters Manufacture of Silk 
 
 ,, ,, Porcelain & Glass 25 
 
 Reid (Dr.) on Warming and Ventilating 2.5 
 Savage's Dictionary of Printing - - 27 
 Steam Engiue (The) , by the Artisan Club 28 
 Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, 
 and Mines ...... 31 
 
 Watheu's Arts, etc. of .-incient Egypt - 31 
 
 BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 Aikin's Life of Addison - ... 5 
 Bell's Lives of the most Eminent British 
 
 Poets 6 
 
 Biographical Dictionary ofthe Society for 
 
 the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - 6 
 
 Dover's Life of the King of Prussia - - 10 
 Dunham's Lives of the Early Writers of 
 
 Great Britain - - - 10 
 
 ,, Lives of the British Dramatists 10 
 Forster's Statesmen of the Common\veaIth 
 
 of England - - - - - - 11 
 
 Gleig's Lives ofthe most Eminent British 
 
 Military Commanders - - - - 11 
 
 Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Correspondence 11 
 
 Hunter's Life of Oliver Heywood - - 16 
 
 James's Life of the Black Prince • - 16 
 
 BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 Pages 
 James's Lives of the most Eminent Foreign 
 Statesmen ------ 16 
 
 Maunder's Biographical Treasury - - 21 
 Roscoe's Lives of Eminent British Lawyers 26 
 Russell's Correspondence ofthe Duke of 
 
 Bedford 6 
 
 Shelley's Lives of the most Eminent Lite- 
 rary Men of Italy, Spain, and 
 Portugal ----- 27 
 ,, Lives of the most Eminent 
 
 French Writers - - - 27 
 Smith's Memoirs of the Marquis DePombal 28 
 Southev's Lives of the British Admirals - 28 
 Tate's Horatius Restitutus - - - 29 
 
 BOOKS OF GENERAL UTILITY. 
 
 Black's Treatise on Brewing . - - 6 
 
 Donovan's Domestic Economy - - 10 
 
 Hand-Book of Taste- - - • - 12 
 
 Hints on Etiquette 13 
 
 Hudson's Parent's Hand-Book - - 15 
 
 ,, Executor's Guide - - - 15 
 
 „ On Making Wills - - - 15 
 Lorimer's Letters to a Young Master 
 
 Mariner ...--. 18 
 
 Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge - - 22 
 
 ,, Scientific and Literary Treasury 22 
 
 ,, Treasury of History - - 22 
 
 ,, Biographical Treasury - - 22 
 
 ,, Universal Class-Book - - 22 
 
 Parke's Domestic Duties - - - - 24 
 
 Riddle's English-Latin and Latin-English 
 
 Dictionaries •-•--- 25 
 
 Short Whist 27 
 
 Thomson's Domestic Management of the 
 
 Sick Room .30 
 
 Tomlins' Law Dictionary - - - - 30 
 
 Webster's Ency. of Domestic Economy - 32 
 
 BOTANY AND GARDENING 
 
 Callcott's Scripture Herbal . . - 8 
 
 Conversations on Botany - - . - 9 
 
 Drummond's First Steps to Botany - - 10 
 Glendiuning On the Culture of the Pine 
 
 Apple - - - - - - - 11 
 
 Greenwood's (Col.) Tree-Lifter - - 12 
 
 Henslow's Botany . - - . - 13 
 
 Hoare On Cultivation of the Grape Vine 
 
 ou Open Walls - - ... 13 
 
 ,, On the Management of the Roots 
 
 of Vines 13 
 
 .oiidon: Printed by Manning and Masi^n, Ivy-lane, St. Paul's,
 
 ANALYTICAL INDEX 
 
 Pages 
 14 
 
 Hooker's British Flora • - - 
 ,, Icones Plantarum 
 ,, and Taylor's MuscologiaBriti 
 nica . . - - 
 
 Jackson's Pictorial Flora . - - 
 
 Knapp's Gramiua Britatinica • 
 
 Lindley's Theory of Horticulture 
 
 ,, Outlines of the First Principles 
 
 of Horticulture 
 „ Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen 
 
 Garden • . - - • 18 
 ,, Introduction to Botany - - 18 
 ,, Flora Medica . - . - 18 
 ,, Synopsis of British Flora - - 18 
 
 Loudon's Hortus Britannicus - . . 19 
 „ ,, Lignosus Londinensis - 19 
 
 „ Encyclopedia of Trees & Shrubs 18 
 ,, ,, Gnrdening 19 
 
 ,, ,, Plants 
 
 ,, ,, Agriculture 
 
 ,, Suburban Garden and Villa Com 
 
 panion - - . 
 
 ,, Cemeteries and Churchyards 
 
 Repton's Landscape Gardening and Land 
 scape Architecture - - - -25 
 
 Rivers's Rose Amateur's Guide - - 26 
 
 Roberts on the Vine - - • - 26 
 
 Rogers's Vegetable Cultivator - - - 26 
 
 Smith's Introduction to Botany - - 27 
 ,, English Flora - - - - 27 
 ,, Compendium of English Flora - 27 
 
 CHRONOLOGY. 
 
 Blair's Chronological Tables . • - 6 
 
 Nicolas's Chronology of History • - 24 
 
 Riddle's Ecclesiastical Chronology - - 25 
 
 Tate's Horatius Restitutus - - - 29 
 
 Wathen's Chronology of Ancient Egypt - 31 
 
 COMMERCE AND„ MERCANTILE 
 AFFAIRS 
 
 Kane's (Dr ) Industrial Resources of 
 IieUnd - - - - - - 16 
 
 Lorimer's Letters to a Young Master 
 
 Mariner ___--- 18 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary of Commerce and 
 
 Commercial Navigation - - - 20 
 Spackman's Statistical Tables - - 28 
 
 Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant • - - 28 
 
 GEOGRAPHY AND ATLASES. 
 
 Butler's Sketch of Ancient and Modern 
 
 Geography - - • - 8 
 
 „ Atlas of Modern Geography - 8 
 
 ,, ,, Ancient Geography - 8 
 
 Hall's New General Atlas - - - 12 
 
 M'CuUoch's Geographical Dictionary - 20 
 
 Malte-Brun's Geography - - 21 
 
 Murray's Encyclop<edia of Geography • 23 
 
 HISTORY AND CRITICISM. 
 
 Adair's (SirR.), Memoir of a Mission to 
 Vienna .... ...4 
 
 Addison's History of the Knights Templars 5 
 
 Bell's History of Russia - - . . 6 
 
 Blair's Chron. and Historical Tables - 6 
 
 Bloomfield's Translation of Thucydides . 7 
 
 ,, Edition of Thucydides • - 7 
 Cooley's History of Maritime and Inland 
 
 Discovery ...... 9 
 
 Crowe's History of France - . . 9 
 
 Dunham's Histoiy of Spain and Portugal 10 
 
 ,, History of Europe during the 
 
 Middle Ages - - - - 10 
 
 ,, History of the German Empire 10 
 „ History of Denmark, Sweden, 
 
 and Norway . . - 10 
 
 Pages 
 Dunham's History of Poland - • - 10 
 Fergus's History of United States of 
 
 America .-..•-- 10 
 Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Corespondence 11 
 Grattan's History of Netherlands - . 11 
 Halsted's Life of Richard III. - - 12 
 
 Horsley's (Bp.) Biblical Criticism - - 14 
 Jeffrey's (Lord) Contributions to the 
 
 Edinburgh Review - - - - 16 
 Keightley's Outlines of History - .16 
 King's (Lord), Speeches and Writings 
 
 (with Memoir) - - 
 
 Laiug's Kings of Norway 
 Macaulay's Essays contributed to the 
 
 Edinburgh Review - 
 Mackintosh's History of England 
 
 ,, Miscellaneo'.is Works 
 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary, Historical, Geo 
 
 graphical, and Statistical 
 Maunders Treasury of History 
 Moore's Historv of Ireland 
 Miiller's Mythology - 
 Nicolas's Chronology of 
 Rome, Histoiy of 
 Russell's Correspondence of the Duke of 
 
 Bedford .... 
 Scott's History of Scotland 
 Sismoudi's History of the Fall of the 
 Roman Empire 
 „ History of the Italian Re 
 
 publics 
 
 Stebbing's History of the Christian Church 28 
 ,, History of the Reformation "" 
 
 Switzerland, History of - 
 Sydney Smith's Works - . - 
 Thirhvall's History of Greece - 
 Tooke's History of Prices 
 Turner's History of England - 
 
 ' History 
 
 31 
 
 JUVENILE BOOKS, 
 
 Including Mrs. MarceVa Worht. 
 
 Boy's (the) Country Book, By W. Howitt 15 
 
 ,, Own Book .... 6 
 
 Hewitt's (M.) ChUd's Picture and Verse 
 
 Book - - - - 14 
 
 „ (W.) Jack of the MiU - - 14 
 
 Ladies' (the Young) Book ... 32 
 
 Marcet's Conversations— 
 
 On the History of England - - 21 
 
 On Chemistry 21 
 
 On Natural PhUosophy . - - 21 
 
 On Political Economy - - . 21 
 
 On Vegetable Physiology - - - 21 
 
 On Land and Water - - - - 21 
 
 Marcet's the Game of Grammar - - 21 
 ,, Mary's Grammar - . ".21 
 
 ,, Lessons on Animals, etc. - - 22 
 
 ,, Conversations on Language - 21 
 
 Marryat's Masterman Ready . . . 22 
 
 ,, Settlers in Canada . . - 22 
 
 Maunder's Universal Class Book • - 22 
 
 Pycroft's (the Rev. J.), English Reading 25 
 
 Summerly's (Mrs. Felix) Mother's Primer 29 
 
 MEDICINE. 
 
 Bull's Hints to Mothers - - - 7 
 
 „ Management of Children - - 7 
 
 Copland's Dictionary of Medicine • - 9 
 Elliotson's Human Physioloi^y . -10 
 Frankum on Enlarged Abdomen . .11 
 
 Holland's Medical Notes - . - - 14 
 
 Macleod On Rheumatism - - - 20 
 Marx and Willis (Drs.) On Decrease of 
 
 Disease - 22 
 
 Pereira On Food and Diet . - - 24 
 
 Recce's Medical Guide • • - - 25 
 
 Sandby On Mesmerism ... 26 
 
 II
 
 TO CATxVLOGL'E OF NEW WORKS. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Pages 
 Beale's (Miss) Vale of the Towey - 
 Black's Treatise on Brewing - 
 Brity's Philosophy of Necessity 
 Civeiidish's Debates ... 
 
 Clavers's Fojest l^ife . . - 
 
 Colton's Lacon - • . • • 
 De Morgan On Probabilities - 
 Good's Book of Nature • . - 
 Graham's Knglish .... 
 ,, Helps to English Grammar 
 Guest's Mabinogion .... 
 H :.nd- Book of Taste - ... 
 Hobbes (Thos.), English Works of 
 Holland's Progressive Education 
 Hoffitt's Rural Life of England 
 
 ,, Visits to Remarkable Places 
 
 ,, Student-Life of Germany - 
 
 ,, Rural and Social Life of Ger 
 
 many . . - - 
 ,, Colonization and Christianity 
 ,, German Experiences 
 Humphreys' lUuminated Books 
 Jeffrey's (Lord) Contributions to the 
 
 Edinburgh Review . - - - 
 Laing's (S.,jun.) Prize Essay On National 
 
 Distress -.--.- 
 
 Letters on American Debts ... 
 Life of a Travelling Physician - 
 Loudon's (Mrs.) Lady's'Coa::try Companion 18 
 Macaulay's Critical and Historical fc^ssays 19 
 Mackintosh's 'SirJames^ Miscellaneous 
 
 Works 
 
 Man and Willis (Drs.) On Decrease of 
 
 Disease .-.--- 
 Miiller's Mytholog^y - - - - 
 Peter Plymle>'s Le'tters - 
 Prism ot Imagination (The) 
 Pycroft's English Reading 
 Standby On Jlesmerism ... 
 Seaward's (Sir E.) Narrativeof his Ship 
 
 wreck ...... 
 
 Smith's (Rev. Sydney) V/orks 
 Summetly's (Mrs. Felix) Mother's Primer 
 Tavlor's Statesman - 
 WAlker's Chess Studies - 
 Willoughby'g (Lady) Diary 
 
 NATURAL HISTORY IN GENERAL. 
 
 Callow's Popular Conchology . - - 8 
 
 Gr.iy's Figures of Molluscous Animals - 12 
 
 ,,' anil Mitchell's Ornithology - - 12 
 
 Kirby and ^pence's Entomology 
 
 Lee's T.ixideimy - - - - 18 
 
 ,, Elements of Natural History - - 18 
 
 Marcel's Conversations on Animals, etc. 22 
 
 Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
 
 Stephens's British Coleoptera - 
 
 Swainson on the Study of Natural History 29 
 
 , , Animals - - - - 29 
 
 ,, Quadrupeds - - - - 29 
 
 Birds 29 
 
 Animals in Menageries - 29 
 
 Fish, Amphibians, & Reptiles 29 
 
 ,, Insects 
 
 ,, Malacology 
 
 ,, Habits and Instincts of Ani 
 
 mals 
 Transactions of the Zoological Society 
 Turion's Shells of the British Islands 
 Wuterlon's Essays on Natural Historj- 
 Westwood's Classification of Insects 
 
 Pages 
 
 - 14 
 
 - 14 
 
 - 14 
 14 
 14 
 21 
 
 NOVELS AND WORKS OF FICTION. [ 
 
 - - 8 
 - 10 I 
 
 Carlen's Rose of Tistelon 
 Doctor (the; 
 
 Howitt's (Mary) Diary - 
 
 ,, ,, Home . . - 
 ,, ,, Neighbours • 
 ,, ,, President s Diughters 
 „ ,, The H Family, etc. 
 
 Marryat's Masterman Ready - 
 
 „ Settlers in Canada ... 
 
 Rambles of the Emperor ChingTih - 8 
 
 TroUope's (Mrs.) The Laurringlons - 31 
 
 ONE VOLUME ENCYCLOP/EDIAS 
 AND CICTIONARIES. 
 
 Blaine's Encyclopa;dia of Rural Sports 
 Brande's Dictionary of Science, liitera- 
 
 ture, and Art 
 
 Copland's Dictionary of Medicine - 
 Gwilt's Encyclopaedia of Architecture 
 Johnson's Farmer's Encyclopa2dia 
 Loudon's Encyclopiedia of Trees and 
 
 Shrubs .... la 
 
 ,, Encyclopaedia of Gardening • 19 
 
 ,, Encyclopaedia of Agriculture - 19 
 
 ,, Enc'yclop<cdia of Plants - -19 
 
 ,, Rural Architecture 19 
 
 M'CuUoch's Dictionary, Geographical, 
 
 Statistical, and Historical 20 
 ,, Dictionary, Practical, Theo- 
 
 retical, etc. of Commerce 20 
 Murray's Encj-clopaedia of Geography . 23 
 Sav.ige's Dictionary of Printing; - . 27 
 Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, 
 
 and Mines 31 
 
 Webster's Encyclopaedia of Dom. Economy 32 
 
 POETRY AND THE DRAMA. 
 
 Aikin's (Dr.) British Poets - - - 27 
 
 Baillie's New Dramas - . - . 5 
 
 ,, Plays of the Passions - - - 5 
 
 Chalenor's Walter Gray .... 8 
 
 ,, Poetical Remains ... 8 
 
 Goldsmith's Poems - - - - . .30 
 
 Horace, bv Tate - . - _ . 29 
 
 LE. L's. Poetical Works - - . 18 
 
 Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome - - 20 
 
 Monlgomer)''s Poetical AVorks - - 22 
 
 Moore's Poetical Works - • . -23 
 
 ,, LallaRookh - . . - 23 
 
 „ Irish Melodies - - - - 23 
 
 ,, „ Illustrated by Maclise 23 
 
 Moral of Flowers - - - . - 23 
 
 Shakspeare, by Bowdler - - - - 27 
 
 Southey's Poetical Works - - - 28 
 
 „ British Poets - - - - 27 
 
 Spirit of the Woods - . - - 28 
 
 Thomson's Seasons ... -30 
 
 POLITICAL ECONOMY AND 
 STATISTICS. 
 Kane's (Dr.) Industrial Resources of 
 
 Ireland -.--.-- IG 
 M'CuUoch's Geographical, Stntistical, and 
 
 Historical Dictionary - SO 
 
 ,, Political Economy - - 21 
 
 Smith's Wealth of Nations - - - 28 
 Spackmnn's Statistical Tables - - - 28 
 Strong's Greece as a Kingdom - - 29 
 
 Tooke's History of Prices ... .30 
 
 RELIGIOUS AND MORAL 
 WORKS, ETC. 
 
 Amy Herbert, Edited by Prof. Sewell . 5 
 
 Bailey's Essays on the Pursuit of Truth - 6 
 
 Bloomfield's Greek Testament - - 6 
 
 ,, College and School ditto - 6 
 
 ,, Greek and English Lexicon 
 
 to New Testament - • 6 
 
 Burder's Oriental Customs ... 7
 
 w>^ 
 
 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Pages 
 
 Burns's Christian Philosophy - - - 7 
 
 ,, „ Fragments - - - 8 
 
 Callcott's Scripture Herbal - - - 7 
 
 Dibdin's Sunday Library - - - - 29 
 
 Doddridge's Family Expositor - - - 10 
 Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Con- 
 cordance ------ 10 
 
 Ford's New Devout Communicant - - 11 
 
 ,, Century of Prayers - - - 11 
 
 Horsley's (Bp ) Biblical Criticism - - 14 
 
 Kippis's Collection of Hymns, etc. - - 16 
 
 Marriage Gift 22 
 
 Parkes's Domestic Duties - - - 24 
 Pearson's Prayers for Families - -24 
 
 Riddle's Letters from a Godfather - - 25 
 Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon 
 
 to the New Testament - - - - 26 
 
 Sandford On Female Improvement - 26 
 
 On Woman - - - - 26 
 spaiaing-s Philosophy of C 
 Tate's History of St. Paul 
 Tayler's (Rev. C. B.) Margaret; or, the 
 
 Pearl - - - 29 
 
 ,, ,, Sermons - - 29 
 
 ,, „ DoraMelder- - 29 
 
 Turner's Sacred History - - - - 31 
 
 Wardlaw On Socinian Controversy - 31 
 
 Willoughby's (Lady) Diary - - - 32 
 
 RURAL SPORTS. 
 
 Blaine's Dictionary of Sports - - • 6 
 
 Hansard's Fishing in Wales - - - 13 
 
 Hawker's Instructions to Sportsmen - 13 
 
 Loudon's (Mrs.) Lady's Country Companion 18 
 
 Ronald's Fly-fisher's Entomology - - 26 
 
 Thacker's Coursing Rules - - - 29 
 
 ,, Courser's Remembrancer - 30 
 
 THE SCIENCES IN GENERAL, 
 AND MATHEMATICS. 
 
 Bakewell's Introduction to Geology - 5 
 
 Balmain's Lessons on Chemistry - - 5 
 Brando's Dictionary of Science, Litera- 
 ture, and Art _ - - - -J 
 
 Brewster's Optics ----- 7 
 
 Conversations on Mineralogy - - - 9 
 De la Beche on theGeology of Cornwall, etc. 10 
 
 Donovan's Chemistry - - - - 10 
 
 Egerton's Treatise on Photography - - 10 
 
 Farey on the Steam Engine - - - 10 
 Fosbroke on the Arts, Manners, Manufac- 
 tures, and Institutions of the Greeks 
 and Romans -- - - - -11 
 
 Greener's Science of Gunnery - - 12 
 
 ., On the Gun - - - - 11 
 
 Herschel's Natural Philosophy - - 13 
 
 ,, Astronomy - - - - 13 
 
 Holland's Manufactures in Metal - - 13 
 
 Hunt's Researches on Light - 16 
 
 Kane's Elements of Chemistry - - 16 
 
 Kater and Lardner's Mechanics - - 16 
 
 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopjedia - - 17 
 
 ,, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics - 17 
 
 ,, and Walker's Electricity - 17 
 
 ,, Arithmetic - - - - 17 
 
 „ Geometry - - - - 17 
 
 ,, Treatise on Heat - - - 17 
 
 Lectures On Polarised Liglit - - - 17 
 
 Lloyd On Light and Vision - - - 18 
 
 Mackenzie's Physiology of Vision - - 20 
 Marcet's (Mrs.) Conversations on the 
 
 Sciences, etc. - - - . 2I 
 
 Moseley's Practical Mechanics - - 23 
 
 Pages 
 
 Moseley's Engineering and Architecture 23 
 
 Narrien's Elements of Geometry - - 26 
 
 „ Astronomy and Geodesy - - 26 
 
 Owen's Lectures On Comparative Anatomy 24 
 
 Parnell On Roads - - - - - 24 
 
 Pearson's Practical Astronomy - - 24 
 
 Phillips's PalcEOzoicFossilsofCorhwall, etc. 24 
 
 „ Guide to Geology - - - 24 
 
 ,, Treatise on Geology - - - 24 
 
 ,, Introduction to Mineralogy - 24 
 
 Poisson's Mechanics - - - 24 
 
 Portlock's Report on the Geology of 
 
 Londonderry ----- 25 
 
 Powell's Natural Philosophy - - - 25 
 
 Roberts's Dictionary of Geology - - 26 
 
 Sandhurst Mathematical Course - - 26 
 
 Scoresby's Maguetical Investigations - 27 
 
 Scott's Arithmetic and Algebra - - 26 
 
 Thomson's Algebra ----- 30 
 
 Wilkinson's Engines of War - - - 32 
 
 Wood On Railroads _ - - _ 32 
 
 TOPOGRAPHY AND GUIDE 
 BOOKS. 
 
 Addison's History of the Temple Church 5 
 
 ,, Guide to ditto - - - - 5 
 
 Britton's Picture of London - - - 7 
 
 Howitt's German Experiences - - - 15 
 
 TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES. 
 
 Transactions of the Entomological Society 30 
 
 ,, Zoological Society - 3(1 
 
 ,, Linnajan Society - 30 
 ,, Institution of Civil 
 
 Engineers - - 31 
 ,, Royal Institute of 
 
 British Architects - 30 
 
 Proceedings of the Zoological Society - 25 
 
 TRAVELS. 
 
 Allan's Mediterranean - - - - 
 Beale's (Miss) Vale of the Towey - 
 China, Last Year in - - - - 
 
 Chorley's Music and Manners in France 
 and Germany . _ - - - 
 De Custine's Russia - - . - 
 
 Harris's Highlands of jEthiopia 
 Howitt's Wanderings of a Journeyman 
 
 Tailor 
 
 ,, German Experiences - - - 
 Laing's Notes of a Traveller - - - 
 ,, Residence in Norway - - - 
 ,, Tour in Sweden - - - - 
 Life of a Travelling Physician ... 
 Modern Syrians . . - - - 
 Postans's Sindh - _ - - - 
 Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck 
 Strong's Greece as a Kingdom 
 Wilde's Voyage to Madeira, etc. 
 
 VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
 
 Field's Veterinary Records - - - 
 Morton's Veterinary Toxicological Chart 
 
 ,, ,, Medicine 
 
 Percivall's Hippopathology - - - 
 
 ,, Anatomy of the Horse - 
 
 Spooner on the Foot and Leg of the Horse 
 Turner On the Foot of the Horse - 
 White's Veterinary Art - 
 
 ,, Cattle Medicine - - ,
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 ADAIR (SIR ROBERT) —AN HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF A MISSION 
 
 TO THE COURT OF VIENNA IN 1806. Bv the Right Honorable Sir Robert Adair, G.C.R. 
 
 With a Selection from his Despatches, published by permission of the proper Authorities. 
 
 8ro. ISs. cloih. 
 
 " Sir Robert Adair's valuable Memoir needs no commendation. Its obvious ntiliti/, the 
 
 nature of its contents, and the name of the author, will command the notice and appreciation 
 
 of statesman and historians." — Athenaeum. 
 
 " The vindication of Mr. Fox, from the observations of Mr. Gcntz and others, is complete ; 
 and the Memoir is altoe;ether a work which mmt be deferred to by future historians as the 
 nnthority on the important affairs of which it treats." — Tait's Magazine. 
 
 AIKIN.-THE LIFE OF JOSEPH ADDISON. 
 
 Illustrated by many of his I^etters and Private Papers never before published. By Lucy 
 Aikin. 2 vols, post 8vo. with Portrait from Sir Godfrey Kneller's Picture. 18j- cloth. 
 " /n the execution of her labour. Miss Aihin has exercised praiseworthy diligence ; she 
 has ransacked among those fine and inexhaustible sources of personal and national interest 
 —family papers, and has succeeded in rescuing from the obscurity of worm-eaten chests, 
 and from the bondage of red tape, many documents which throw light on the most doubtful 
 parts of Addison's history, andrelieve hischaracter from the reproaches attempted to he cast 
 on it. She has produced, both in style and matter, a very interesting work, creditable to her 
 feelings and talents, and honourable to her industry ."- -BTilamua. 
 
 ALLAN.— A PICTORIAL TOUR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ; 
 
 Comprising Halta, Dahnatia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Grecian Archipelago, Egypt, Nubia, 
 Greece, Ionian Islands, Sicily, Italy, and Spain. By J. H. Allan, Member of the Athenian 
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 By Mary Clavers, an Actual Settler; autiior of " A New Home, Who'll Follow?'' 2vols. 
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 and the Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to Sex, and to the different Epochs of 
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 With Notes by Dr. Johu Davy. 6th Edition, Svo. with 10 Plates, los. cloth. 
 Introduction; The General Powers of Matter ; Animal Origin ; Manures of Mineral Origin, 
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 t/iis in the case of Russia re'jnires many and favourable opportunities of observation, con- 
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 Mons. De Custiue h,:s proved himself to have possessed in an eminent degree; and the result 
 is, a work which those who arc desirous to know Russia as it really is, and not as it would fain 
 impose itself on the world to be, 7could do well to consult. We promise uur readers equal 
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 DE LA BECHE.— REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL, DEVON, 
 
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 Robert Bell, Esfj., in The StoryTeller. 
 
 DODDRIDGE.— THE FAMILY EXPOSITOR; 
 
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 Improvement of each Section. By P. Doddridge, D.D. To which is prefixed, a Life of the 
 
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 12 CATALOGUE OF NEW WORKS 1 
 
 GRAY AND MITCHELL'S ORNITHOLOGY.— THE GENERA OF BIRDS; J 
 
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 Part 1.— The Lady of the Fountain. 
 
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 14 (.ATALOGUE OF NEW WORKS 
 
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 Life ol the Aristocracy. 
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 familiarise the English reader irith forms of character and modes of social life, vastly differ- 
 ent from anything witnessed at home."— Eclectic Review. 
 
 HOWITT— GERMAN EXPERIENCES: 
 
 Addresse'1 to the KngliNh, both Goers Abroad and Stayers at Home. By William Howitt. 
 
 Foolscap Sto. 7s- 6rf. cloth. 
 " The minute practical information given in this book respecting Germany, and the modes of 
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 utility to the travelling English "—Court Journal. 
 
 HOWITT.— WANDERINGS OF A JOURNEYMAN TAILOR, 
 
 through EUROPE and the EAST, during the years 1S24 to 1840. Bv P. D. Holthaus, from 
 Werdohl iu Westphalia. Translated from the Third German Edition, by William Howitt, 
 author of " The Rur:il and Social Life of Germany," etc. etc. Foolscap Svo. with Portrait 
 of the Tailor, 65. cloth. 
 
 HOWITT —THE STUDENT-LIFE OF GERMANY. 
 
 From the Unpublished MS. of Dr. Cornelius. By William Howitt. Svo. with 24 Wood- 
 
 Eugravings, and " Steel Plates, 21«. cloth. 
 "German student-life has, of course, its brighter side and pleasanter traits. Its generous 
 friendships, its buoyant spirits, its noble soTigs, its intense study , at the last may_ welt com- 
 pensate Jor many of its darker features In this volume there is no want of material to form 
 a very sufficient notion of German student-life.''— Qaa-tterly Review. 
 
 HOWITT.-COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY: 
 
 A Popular Historr of the Treatment of the Natives, in all their Colonies, by the Europeans. 
 By William Howitt. 1 vol. post Svo. 10». 6rf. cloth. 
 
 HOWITT.— THE BOY'S COUNTRY BOOK: 
 
 Being the real Life of a Country Boy, written by Himself; exhibiting all the Amusements, 
 Pleas'ures, and Pursuits of Children in the Couiitrv. Edited by William Howitt, author of 
 " The Rural Life of England.'- etc. 2d Edition, fcap. Svo. with 40 Woodcuts, 8> cloth. 
 "A capital work, and, we are inclined to think, Howitt' s best in any /ine."— Quarterly Review. 
 
 HUDSON— THE PARENT'S HAND-BOOK; 
 
 Or, Guide to the Choice of Professions, F:mployments, and Situations ; containing: useful 
 and practical information on the subject of placing out Young Men, and of obtaining their 
 Education with a view to particular occupations. By J. C. Hudson, Esq., author of " Plain 
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 HUDSON.-PLAIN DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING WILLS 
 
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 sonal Estate in the case of Intestacv ; with two Forms of Wills, and much useful Information, 
 etc. Bv J. C. Hudson, of the Legacy Duty Office. 12th Edition, corrected, with Notes of 
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 HUDSON.-THE EXECUTOR'S GUIDE. 
 
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 HUMPHREYS.— THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 
 
 A History of Illuminated Books from the IVth to the XVIIth Century. By Henry Noel 
 Hnmphrevs. Illustrated by a Series of Specimens, consisting of an entire Pai;e, of the 
 exact sizt/of the Original, from the most celebrated and splendid MSS. in the Imperial and 
 Roval Libraries of Vienna, Moscow, Paris, Naples, Copenhagen, and Madrid ;— from the 
 Vatican, Escurial, Ambrosian, and other great Libraries of the Continent ;- and from the 
 rich Public, Collegiate, and Private Libraries of Great Britain ; superbly printed in Gold, 
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 In course of publication, in Parts, issued at intervals of about two months ; each Part to con- 
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 in Chronological Order. . . ,,> 
 
 Each Part, containing Three Plates, with Descriptions, Imperial Quarto (lo in. by 11), 
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 which have surprised us by the accuracy of their execution, and the effect produced by merely 
 mechanical meoHS."— Quarterly Review.
 
 16 CATALOGUE OF NEW WORKS 
 
 HUNT.— RESEARCHES ON LIGHT: 
 
 An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes 
 produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays ; embracing all the known Photographic Pro- 
 cesses, and new Discoveries in the Art. By Robert Hunt, Secretary of the Royal Cornwall 
 Polytechnic Society. 8vo. with Plate and Woodcuts, 10s. 6d. cloth. 
 •'Afr. HunVi reputation is so well established, that we need only mention his pleasing 
 volume to secure it a favourable reception from the philosophical public.'" 
 
 Jameson's New Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. 
 
 HUNTER. -THE RISE OF THE OLD DISSENT, 
 
 Exemplified in the T.ife of Oliver Heywood : uiith a Sketch of the subsequent History of the 
 English Prisbyterian Dissenters. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 8vo. 7s. cloth. 
 
 JACKSON— PICTORIAL FLORA; 
 
 Or, British Botany Delineated, in 1500 Lithographic Drawings of all the Species of Flowering 
 Plants indigenous to Great Britain ; illustrating the descriptive works on English Botany of 
 Hooker, Lindley, Smith, etc. By Miss Jackson. 8vo. 15s. cloth. 
 
 JAMES.-A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE, 
 
 and of various Events connected therewith, which occurred during the Reign of Edward III. 
 King of England. By G. P. R. James, Esq. 2d Edition, 2 vols, foolscap 8vo. with Map, 15s. 
 cloth. 
 
 JAMES.-LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT FOREIGN STATESMEN. 
 
 ByG.P. R. James, Esq., and E.E. Crowe, Esq. 5 vols. foolscap 8vo. with Vignette Titles. 
 30s. cloth. 
 
 LORD JEFFREY.-CONTRIBUTIONSTOTHE EDINBURGH REVIEW. 
 
 By Francis Jeffrey, now one of the Judges in the Court of Session in Scotland. 4 vols. 8vo. 
 48j. cloth. 
 
 JOHNSON.-THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOP/EDIA, 
 
 And DICTIONARY of RURAL AFFAIRS : embracing all the recent Discoveries in Agri- 
 cultural Chemistry; adapted to the comprehension of unscientific Readers. By Cuthbert 
 W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S. Barrister-at-Law, Corresponding Member of the Agricultural 
 Society of Konigsberg, and of the Maryland Horticultural Society , Author of several of the 
 Prize Essays of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and other Agricultural Works ; 
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 KANE. -THE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF IRELAND. 
 
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 Natural Philosophy to the Royal Dublin Society, and of Chemistry to the Apothecaries' 
 
 Hall of Ireland. Post 8vo. 7s cloth. 
 
 " We have been much struck by a work recently published, by Professor Kane, on the 
 
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 the composition and capabilities of the soil, the nature and locality of manures, and the 
 
 means of internal comtnunication ea-istingin the comitry, are successively taken up, aiialysed, 
 
 and laid before the reader, in their scientific as well as their practical bearings. Nothing can 
 
 leave a stronger impression of the mismanagement from which Ireland has suffered than 
 
 Dr. Kane's clear and business-like statement of the elements of wealth and power which have 
 
 so long lain almost idle in her possession.^' — Morning Chronicle. 
 
 KANE— ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY; 
 
 Including the most Recent Discoveries and Applications of the Science to Medicine and 
 Pharmacy, and to the Arts. By Robert Kane, M.D. M.R.I. A. Professor of Natural Philosophy 
 to the Royal Dublin Society. 8vo. with 236 Woodcuts, 24s. cloth. 
 
 KATER AND LARDNER.— A TREATISE ON MECHANICS. 
 
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 19 Plates, comprising 224 distinct figures, 6s. cloth. 
 
 KEIGHTLEY.-OUTLINES OF HISTORY, 
 
 From the Earliest Period. By Thomas Keightley, Esq. New Edition, corrected and con- 
 siderably improved, foolscap 8vo. pp. 468, 6s. cloth ; or 6s. 6rf. bound. 
 
 KING— A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF THE 
 
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 his Lordship has shevm that he ca7i not only appreciate Lord King, but that he is well able to 
 maintain the principles and enforce the doctrines to which his illustrious relative devoted his 
 life." — Athenaeum. 
 
 KIPPIS.-A COLLECTION OF HYMNS AND PSALMS, 
 
 For Public and Private Worship. Selected and prepared by A. Keppis, D.D., Abraham Rees, 
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 KIRBY AND SPENCE.— AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY; 
 
 Or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects: comprising an account of noxious and 
 
 useful Insects, of their Metamorphoses, Food, Stratagems, Habitations, Societies, Motions, 
 
 Noises, Hybernation, Instinct, etc. By \V. Kirby, M.A. F.R.S. & L.S. Rector of Barham ; 
 
 and \V. Spence, Esq., F.R.S. &L.S. '6th Edition, corrected and considerably enlarged, 
 
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 cost of the technical portion of the work relating to their anatomy, physiology , etc. 
 
 KNAPR— CRAMINA BRITANNICA; 
 
 Or, Representations of the British Grasses: with Remarks and occasional Descriptions. By 
 
 I. L. Knapp, Esq. F.L.S. & A.S. 2d Edition, 4to. with 118 Plates, beautifully coloured, 
 
 3/. 16*. boards. 
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 to form part of the library of every one interested in rural affairs ; for thrre are feic plants 
 so difficult to distinguish as grasses, not any more so, and none which it is more important to 
 know correctly, because of their various uses and qualities, ff'ith Mr. Knapp' s book before 
 him, no one can have the least difficulty in making himself master of the subjrct." 
 
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 Cambridge. 8vo. 7». 6rf cloth'. 
 •»• The Essay to which the First Prize of 100?., offered by The Atlas newspaper, was awarded. 
 
 LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, 
 
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 Twelfth Century, commonly called the Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of 
 
 Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by Samuel Laing, author of 
 
 •• Notes of aTraveller," etc. 3 vols. 8to. 36». cloth. 
 
 «'We have been rather profuse in our extracts from this curious and most characteristic 
 
 old history. But it is long since we have met 'cith a work so spirited, and so amusing, and 
 
 at the same ti;ne affording such valuable information respecting a race to whom we are to 
 
 largely indebetd, as this venerable Chronicle rjf Snorro Sturleson."— ¥.c\ectic Review. 
 
 LAING.-A TOUR IN SWEDEN 
 
 InlSSS; comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish 
 Nation. By Samuel Laing, Esq. Svo. lis. cloth. 
 
 LAING.— NOTES OF A TRAVELLER 
 
 On the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and other parts of 
 Europe, during the present Century. By Samuel Laing, Esq. 2d Edition, Svo. 16s. cloth. 
 
 LAING.— JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN NORWAY 
 
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 The Series complete in One Hundred and Thirty-three Volumes, 39/. 18*. (One Volume 
 
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 "In the completeness of its treatises the Cabinet Cyclopadia is unrivalled; and now that 
 the whole plan is carried out, it exhibits an extensive body of available knowledge, such as 
 this orno ether country has ever yet presented in a popular and convenient form."— Brh&nnia. 
 
 LARDNER.— A TREATISE ON ARITHMETIC. 
 
 By Dr. Lardner, LL.D. F.R.S. 1 vol. foolscap Svo. with Vignette Title, 6j. cloth lettered. 
 
 LARDNER AND WALKER.— A MANUAL ON ELECTRICITY, MAG- 
 NETISM, and METEOROLOGY. By Dr. Lardner, LL.D. F.R.S., and C. V. Walktr, 
 Secretary of the Electrical Society. 2 vols, foolscap Svo. 12». 
 
 LARDNER.— A TREATISE ON GEOMETRY, 
 
 And its Application to the Arts. By Dr. Lardner. 1 vol. foolscap Svo. Vignette Title, and 
 upwards of 200 figures, 6j. cloth. 
 
 LARDNER.— A TREATISE ON HEAT. 
 
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 LARDNER.— A TREATISE ON HYDROSTATICS AND PNEUMATICS. 
 
 By Dr. Lardner. Now Edition. 1 vol. foolscap Svo. 6s. cloth. 
 
 LECTURES ON POLARISED LIGHT, 
 
 Delivered by Dr. Pereira, before the Ph-irmaceutical Society, and in the Medical School of 
 the London' Hospital. 8vo. illustrated by above SO Woodcuts, 5». 6rf. cloth.
 
 L. E. L.— THE POETICAL WORK OF LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON. 
 
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 LEE.— TAXIDERMY; 
 
 Or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and Mounting Objects of Natural History. For the use 
 of Museums and Travellers. By Mrs. R.Lee (formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich) , author of 
 "Memoirs of Cuvier," etc. 6th Edition, improved, with an account of a Visit to Walton 
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 LEE-ELEMENTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
 
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 ByMrs. R.Lee (formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich), author of "Taxidermy," "Memoirs of 
 Cuvier," etc. 12mo. with 55 Woodcuts, 7«.6d. bound. 
 
 LIFE OF A TRAVELLING PHYSICIAN, 
 
 From his first Introduction to Practice ; including Twenty Years' Wanderings throughout 
 the greater part of Europe. 3 vols, post 8vo. with coloured Frontispieces, 31j. 6rf. cloth. 
 " There is much amusement and information to be gained from these pleasant and enter- 
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 LINDLEY.— INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
 
 By Prof. J. Lindley, Ph.D. F.R.S. L.S. etc. 3d Edition (1S39), with Corrections and consider- 
 able Additions, 1 large vol. 8vo. pp. 606, with Six Plates and numerous Woodcuts, 18». cloth. 
 
 LINDLEY.— FLORA MEDICA ; 
 
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 LINDLEY.— A SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH FLORA, 
 
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 The 3d Edition, with numerous Additions, Corrections, and Improvements, 12mo. pp. 390, 
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 LINDLEY.— THE THEORY OF HORTICULTURE; 
 
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 such k>2ou-ledge will necessarily teach them how to improve their methods of cultivation, and 
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 LINDLEY.— GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; 
 
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 Kalendars of the Work required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden during every month in 
 the year. By George Lindley, CM. H.S. Edited by Professor Lindley. llarge vol.Svo. 16». 
 boards. 
 
 LLOYD.— A TREATISE ON LIGHT AND VISION. 
 
 By the Rev. H. Lloyd, M. A., Fellow of Trin. Coll. Dublin. 8vo. 15«. boards. 
 
 LORIMER.-LETTERS TO A YOUNG MASTER MARINER, 
 
 On some Subjects connected wth his Calling. By Charles Lorimer. 3d edition, 12mo. 
 with an Appendix, 5s. Gd. cloth. 
 
 LOUDON (MRS.)— THE LADY'S COUNTRY COMPANION; 
 
 Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally. By Mrs. Loudon, author of " Gardening for 
 Ladies," etc. 
 Contents.— Introduction — The House — The Garden — Domestic Animals— Rural Walks — 
 Miscellaneous Country Amusements — Country Duties. — In the press. 
 
 LOUDON.— AN ENCYCLOP/EDIA OF TREES AND SHRUBS; 
 
 Being the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum" abridged: containing the Hardy Trees 
 and Shrubs of Great Britain, Native and Foreign, scientifically and popularly described : 
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 LOUDON.— AN ENCYCLOP>EDlA OF AGRICULTURE; 
 
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 British Farmer's'Magazine. 
 
 LOUDON.— AN ENCYCLOPyEDIA OF PLANTS; 
 
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 giving their Natural History, accompanied by such Descriptions, Engraved Figures, and 
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 and revised by George Don, F.L.S. ; and 800' new Figures of Plants, onVVood.frora Drawings 
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 LOUDON.— AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA 
 
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 life propose to build a cottage or country-house."— \VestminsteiT^e\iew. 
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 LOUDON.-HORTUS BRITANNICUS : 
 
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 little of Gardening or Rural Affairs, and more particularly for the use of Ladies. By J. C. 
 Loudon, F.L.S., etc. 1 vol Svo. with above 300 Wood Engravings, 20». cloth. 
 
 LOUDON.-HORTUS LICNOSUS LONDINENSIS ; 
 
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 which are added their usual Prices in Nurseries. By J. C. Loudon, F.L.S. etc. Svo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 LOUDON.-ON THE LAYING-OUT, PLANTING, AND MANAGEMENT OF 
 
 CEMETERIES ; and on the Improvement of Churchyards. By J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., etc. 
 Svo. with 6f) Engravings, 12*. cloth. 
 
 LOW. -ON LANDED PROPERTY, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES; 
 
 Comprehending the Relations between Landlord and Tenant, and the Principles and Forms 
 of Leases ; the Construction of Farmbuildings, Enclosures, Drains, Embankments, and 
 other Works ; and the Economy of Woods, Mines, etc. By David Low, F.R.S.E. etc., Svo. 
 
 In the press.
 
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 LOW. — THE BREEDS OF THE DOIVIESTICATED ANIMALS OF GREAT 
 
 BRITAIN described. By David Low, Ksq. F.R.S.E., Professor of Ag:ricultureiii the Univer- 
 sity of Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture of Sweden ; Corresponding 
 Member of the Conseil Royal d'Agriculture de France, of the Societe Royal et Centrale, 
 etc. etc. The Plates from drawings by W. Nicholson, R.S.A., reduced from a Series of Oil 
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 Vol. 2 contains Descriptions of the various Instruments that have been usefully employed in 
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 RIVERS.— THE ROSE AMATEUR'S GUIDE: ~ 
 
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 ROBERTS.-AN ETYMOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF 
 
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 ROBINSON.-GREEK AND ENGLISH LEXICON TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
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 SMITH.— LETTERS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CATHOLICS^ 
 
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