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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. - 277 could tell her how he had passionately loved her all those long, long years; and now she could listen to that outpour- ing of his love. Lhe long and terrible bitterness of her heart had fled away like a dark and hideous dream of night, when safe, sweet morning breaks over land and sea. Her heart had found its true shelter, and she rested in sweet content with in the circle of his arm. Suddenly she smiled in his face. “Kenneth, I know you had planned this with your mother.” And so Violet returned to London the next season, and was again presented at court, but now as Lady Keith. And all that London season Violet Keith shone as a bright, particular star in London life, and for another season there- after. But not merely was she noted for her fair face and charming manner, her immense wealth and exquisite taste, as for her lovety sympathy, her wide generosity, her noble rectitude, for all that makes a woman admirable, as mother, - wife, and friend. One evening, in the House of Peers, a door opened, not — far behind the famous woolsack, whereon the Lord Chan- cellor sat in the biggest of wigs, with an enormous hat laid at his right side. ‘Through the door came a very beautiful boy of six, dressed in a suit of purple velvet, with full lace ‘ruffies. The little fellow ‘stole softly along to the side of © | the woolsack, and, awed by the imposing presence of all his brother peers, and the bench of bishops in full lawn sleeves, he gave what he considered a very private and confidential grasp of his friend, the Lord Chancellor’s arm. ‘This was Rupert, Earl of Leigh, at his first appearance in the Upper House. His clutch of the Chancellor was seen with a quiet — smile by his two guardians, Lord. Keith, and the Marquis of Alwood, in the body of the House, and by two very beautiful peeresses in their gallery, Kdna, of Alwood, and Violet Keith. [THE END. |] t cComicbooks:co