Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 249: what you’re looking at

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236 ANGELINA; OR, THE MYSTERY OF ST. MARK’S ABBEY, stated in those possessions, and that title he hal been so unjustly deprived of. But a more joyful surprise than all awalled Sir Eustace ; on the last day of his appearance at the palace, he encountered Lord Edward Dalton, whom he had supposed’to have been dead, or never cxpected to see ogain.—The meeting may well be imagined; but when Sir Eustace informed him of the sufferings his ubfoitunale wife had undergone, and the certainty there was of her innocence of the guilt of which she had been suspected, bis agitation was so great that it was ulmost more than he could support. In a few days, Lady Emmeline Dalton was restored to the arms of her husband, from whour she bad been so many years separated; and to her turmer rank-in society, while Hugh, for the first time in his life, received the embraces of his father, and heard his bless- ing invuked upon his head. No sooner did Orillia bear of the death of the baron, and the confession he had made, than, unable to meet the disgrace which would follow such dis- closures, she fled, with the Marquess Florendes for ker paramour, and ended her dayson the continent, ina carecr of profliguey, dissipation, and shame. Lady Matilda de Morton was,'.without apy. difficulty, recognized, and the wealthy possessions of the family restored to her. . For the purpose of being near Lord and Lady Dalton, and Lady Matilda and Angelina, Six Eustace purchased an estate near De Morton Casile, and Iiugh and Angelina having shortly efterwards plighted their vows at the hy- meneal altar, they ali became united as one family, and their future happiness knew of uo interruption. Not lung after these events had taken plece, our heroine was transported with pleasure, one morning, when the faithful Bridget, who had suffercd so much for her sake, and whom she had supposed. to.have met with an untimely death, presenied herself hefore her. ‘She had been preserved ina most miracu- Jous manner; and hastened as soon as she learnt that Aftigeliga was aJso saved, and where she could find her, to rejoin one to whom she was sv devotedly at- tached. Angelina was determined that she shoald never leave her again as lung as she lived, and she kept her resolution, Bridget residing in the castle, and be- ing trealed as a sister by our heroine, and with the most distinsuished esteem by every other person. - Angelina and Hugh were supremely happy in ‘each other's love, and ip seeing a family of virtuous and beauteous children around them, never louked back upon the sorrows of the past with any other feclings than those of satisfaction, as they taught them more duly to appreciate the felicity of the present, and the unbeunded goodness of Providence. Laura Arlingham, in the course of a year after these events, was united,to a gentleman every way worthy of her, and they passed a lung life together in mutual happiness and content. ! Lady de ‘Morton caused St. Mark’s Abbey to be restored to all its pristine beauty, and it became the favourite resitience of her son and daughter. . [t may be as well te explain, that the skeleton: which Angelina had secn in the chest, upon one occasion of her visiting the ruins, had been placed there by the desire of Lady Emmeline, b y the smugglers, to alarm any person who might be bold enough to examine the place, and it was removed from one of the vaults underseath the old abbey. This, then, do we end . ? ‘“ This round unvarnished’ tafe.” A an COMIC OOOKS. EO