Twivee! twivee! twivee, ho!

The merry horn does blow---
Come away!

The song to which he had so often listened, bringing back to his mind a long train of recollections associated with his earlier and less profligate days, soothed and pleased him so long as he remained in the society of his sister; but she had no sooner left him than the sense of his present misery seemed to be embittered by the remembrance of the tranquillity and cheerfulness that he had once enjoyed, and summoning up all his false spirits to conceal his real depression, he shouted, and laughed, and whistled as he went to prepare for the reception of the Bacchanalian friends whom he had invited to dine with him. By their assistance and the aid of deep potations—for there was to be no gambling that night-he not only succeeded in effec

tually discarding those temporary impressions of remorse which had assailed him in his conversation with Emily, but attained the sole species of happiness of which he had declared himself susceptible, being carried to bed by his servants, at an advanced hour of the morning, in a state of senseless intoxication.

CHAPTER VII.

"The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible,
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,

Above the sense of sense, so sensible

Seemeth their conference; their conceit hath wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter

things."

SHAKSPEARE.

REUBEN's sudden disappearance from Harpsden Hall had excited various emotions among its different inmates. To Lady Trevanian it was a satisfaction that he had not carried off his livery, though she regretted the loss of so tall and comely a servant; and in promulgating among the neighbours that the post of butler was vacant, she took special care to add that no ugly or undersized person need apply for it, and that to any candidate of a proper height

and presence, she was willing to give wages proportionate to his personal recommendations."In this respect," said her Ladyship, "I am disposed to imitate Nature, and behave handsomely where she has done the same; for as I drink little or no wine myself, the least I can expect from a butler who ministers no gratifications to my palate, is that he should please my eye. I doubt whether Ganymede or Hebe were made cup-bearers to the gods for their skill in pouring out nectar, so much as for their good looks; and it may be even questioned, whether they were asked for any other character than that which they carried in their faces."

Helen was relieved from a most painful state of anxiety by the departure of so perilous an inmate; for though she had borne up against all the dangers that menaced her, with great fortitude and self-possession, and indeed had never known any other fear on her own account than that of not doing her duty, she still deeply dreaded the consequences that might attach to others to Reuben, to Adeline, and perhaps to her mother, from any discovery and public ex

posure in the house. On this subject there was now nothing further to apprehend, and as she believed that their protegé would not have slipped away so suddenly without having devised some feasible mode of

escape, she rejoiced in the prospect of his avoiding the cruel fate that threatened him, and impatiently longed for the day when the certainty of this fact would enable her proudly to refute the injurious insinuations of Lady Crockatt and Mrs. Chatsworth, and confirm her claim to the generous confidence of Emily Hartfield.

As to Adeline, she was so equally divided between grief for the loss of her dear darling Arcadius, and her confident anticipation of his making his escape, and returning to claim her hand as soon as the expected amnesty should leave him at liberty to do so, that she hardly knew what feeling to prefer; in which uncertainty she was occasionally to be seen sitting in a desponding attitude, with her eyes fixed upon the sky, as if she thought she were thinking; while at other times she would burst into noisy gaiety, and swim fantastically about the room, prac