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remarkable passages of the deceased mariner's life, and afterwards withdrew.

As they were passing across the court they again saw the priest. He was conversing with a Catholic prisoner who had been allowed to take the air here daily on account of weak health. The father threw a frowning glance toward the pair, and said with virulence to the man beside him, loud enough for them to hear

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Heresy stalks abroad in our once Catholic Canada with a bold face. By Jesu's mother, friend, it was different in the worthy days of our good forefathers! Would we had such days now!"

"And if we had," said Arthur to his bride, who shuddered at the priest's persecuting tone, "this man would be the readiest to light the funeral pyres of Protestant martyrs. What a fearful scourge is ill-directed

zeal!"

Entering their lodgings beside the prison, the same they had occupied before their marriage, Deborah threw herself into Jane's arms and kissed her without ceremony.

"O my darlin Miss Jane !" she sobbed, "I wish you joy with all my heart! and that's as thrue a word as ever I said in my life. God bless you for ever, and your husband too! Little I thought to see the day when you two would be man and wife. Yet I'll be bound there were never two better matched in the world. You'll forgive my freedom?—it's the fault of my heart. I am so glad to see you married, I could cry a day and a night!"

When Arthur had shaken her warmly by the hand, he poured out a brimming glass of wine and handed it

to her, cordially smiling as he exclaimed-" Drain it, Debby!"

"That I will, Mr. Lee, and lave not a drop. Here's to your health, happiness, and long life, and my Lord Marquis' freedom!"

"In return I wish you may yet meet with O'Reilly, and find him anxious and able to atone for his past inconstancy."

"Small hope of that," ejaculated Deborah, her good humoured face turning red all over. "But I won't tell a lie about it-I shouldn't be mighty sorry, Mr. Lee, if things were to come about in that way. And it's not altogether unlikely."

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Oh, you have seen him then!"

"That I havn't. I have heard of him though."

"Let us hear the how and where, Debby," cried Jane, with interest.

"You must know, darlin Miss Jane-"

"Or Mrs. Jane," interrupted Arthur, archly.

"I beg a thousand pardons. Och! but I'm always blundering; I wouldn't be Irish else. Well my darlin Mrs. Lee, as I was saying, a little before the Marquis was taken, I spies one of my own country at work in the little temple where the last Marquis and Marchiniss was to be buried. Up goes I to him as he was polishin a block of marble, and asks him the news from darlin ould Ireland in his mother tongue. Down drops his tool. He wrings my hand almost off-and kisses me into the bargin without asking lave.

yer own silf, my Debby!' says he.

And is it you And is that you,

O'Reilly' says I. And so I bursts out a cryin." "You said you had not seen him."

"Sure, Mrs. Lee, he was so altered, I might well say that same. He was like another man intirely!"

"Deborah is the same as ever," remarked Arthur, amused." She still retains her own peculiar notions of truth and falsehood. But pray, Debby, what said your inconstant of his wife ?"

"He nivir was married at all," answered the Irish girl with a beaming look of pleasure. ""Twas all a mistake. I will tell you about it another time, maybe." "But is it a match between you?" asked Arthur.

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Maybe it is," was the off-hand reply. "But where's my young lord, and his new lady?—I long to see them!"

Informed where they lodged, she went to pay them her warm-hearted congratulations, and returned the same evening.

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"If I am not almost light-headed with the wine Mr. Lee and my young lord have given me this day, I wish I may nivir see you again, my lady! But what do you think?—Roberts, my Lord-Marquis' valet, was there at the villa; and says he, Debby, there has been the Earl of Wilton here to-day, and my lady and he has had high words-he has gone off in such a tiff! As I opened the door for him,' says Roberts, the Earl muttered to himsilf-I shall nivir be mysilf again!-my eldest daughter married to the son of a public fillen!' St. Patrick defind me! who would have thought it! 'O indeed, Mr. Roberts,' says 1, did the Earl talk like that? Why he owed his life, and his youngest daughter's life into the bargain, to that same fillen, so it's not very purty in him, at-all-at-all, to talk so big. Fillen, indeed! Bad luck to him that said the ugly

word! The Marquis is no more of a filen than he himsilf, barring his having been Captain of a Pirate-ship, which nobody can deny."

"Did you hear whether my brother saw the Earl?" asked Jane.

"Yis indeed he did, my lady. But the Earl would not spake to my young lord, and in course my young lord wouldn't spake to the Earl. Sure enough nobody can blame him for that."

"I am to suppose this scene took place before you reached the villa ?"

"It was no scene at all, for they didn't spake, my lady. Lady Hester's eyes were red as if she had been cryin. My young lord was saying all that he iver could to cheer her. Roberts tould me that the Earl had arrived only yisterday from Toronto to be a witness aginst my Lord-Marquis at the trial. Bad luck to his good-for-nothin' arrant, Mr. Roberts!' says I. It would have been a good job for the Marquis if he had let the Earl drown on Lake Erie instead of picking him out of it when he did.' Says Roberts, says he, I must say it's a very ungrateful return on the Earl's part.' Troth, and I think so, Mr. Roberts, says-" "

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Deborah was getting too loquacious; Jane interrupted her

"You heard nothing of Lady Letitia ?"

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"That I did. She is in this town with her governess. Roberts says, says he, Debby, this is what cut my lady to the heart more than any thing else, her sister is not to see her or write to her.' Cruel indeed, Roberts,' I. But how do you know that? Why,' says he, I was called up into the drawing-room when the

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Earl was going. My lady came to the head of the stairs with him-Do let my dear Letty come and see me once! said she, looking at him quite. piteously. The Earl gave her a most terrible angry frown. No, says he; if Letitia comes to see you, writes to you, or holds any intercourse with you whatsoever, she shall no longer have a father in me!-these were his very words-she shall no longer have a father in me! Then my young lord comes out, and says he, proudly, Hester, ask bim no more; there may come a time when he will regret his present animosity. So he leads her back into the room, and the Earl goes away without giving or taking so much as one good-bye." "

It was too late in the day for Deborah to visit the Pirate, but on the morrow she was in the prison at an early hour, and gave her master a very particular account of all that had passed at Rougemont since he left it. The estate was in the hands of civil officers, and the servants had been under arrest until the preceding morning, when they were removed to Quebec in preparation for the trial, and allowed their freedom upon proper responsibilities. Deborah had been thought by the lawyer likely to prove an useful witness on the side of the defence.

The Pastor had not arrived up to the last day previous to that appointed for the trial. A second letter had been dispatched to him, and his arrival was hourly and anxiously looked for by the Pirate and his children, who all concurred in the fear that he had been detained by illness.

Clinton had received a compulsory notice from the parties for the prosecution that he would be subjected

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