from her was bitter. She was become to her like a second conscience, and as an oracle whose dictates she implicitly followed-it was to cut off a right hand to be without her. Nor were her regrets wholly selfish - in spite of Lady Rachel's self-control, Isabella perceived the unusual workings of her mind as she bad her farewell.

"You

"You are going to Eagle's Crag!" said she, and her lips quivered. are going to tread in the footsteps of those whose path has led to Heaven! Emulate their ways! You will behold scenes where once there was bliss exceeded only by that known to our first parents before they fell! You may not be able to restore this paradise; at least deserve to have it restored to you! You will behold the spot where all that constitutes human happiness was blasted with the sudden

ness of the lightning's flash! Learn hence, that here below, the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift; but look beyond this 'visible diurnal sphere,' and behold the crown that has been trodden in the dust by mortal feet, shine in bright effulgence around the immortal brow! - Farewell!"

CHAP. XXI.

"A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain."

SHAKSPEARE.

THE emotion of Lady Rachel's parting words had impressed a solemnity on the feelings of Isabella, which appeared to Mr. Willoughby as the token of regret in the choice that she had made.

"Do you repent your selection of your summer residence?" asked he. "If you do, for Heaven's sake, don't go. Nothing is so foolish as to do a

thing because it has been determined upon, when one has lost the relish for it. I don't half like the scheme myself; I begin to feel that I shall be very uncomfortable to have you and Godfrey at such a distance from me. Had we not better all go to Brighton together?"

"If you really wish that we should do so," replied Isabella, "I am ready to give up the Westmorland scheme; but I have not repented of my choice, and the less as you tell me that you shall not be easy to be absent fromfrom-from us. I flatter myself that I shall scarcely have time to put all things into the order which I know you like, before you are with me; but you really wish me not to go"

if

"No, no!" interrupted Mr. Willoughby. "Provided the matter is your own choice, I do not know any arrangement that will do better for the

remainder of the summer than spending it at Eagle's Crag; but I would not have you go reluctantly."

"I do not go reluctantly," replied Isabella.

"Well, then things may remain as they have been fixed. But I must set you on your way. Don't hurry yourself in the morning. If you will make your first night's resting place not more than twenty miles from London, I will accompany you; and the next morning, after seeing you all well packed up, turn off to Beechwood, where I have appointed a person upon business."

Isabella's eyes sparkled at this proposal.

"How kind, how good you are!" said she. "I shall now, indeed, begin my journey under auspices which must make it prosperous."

In fact Mr. Willoughby felt an un