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268 HLS GCRACH CHAPTER XXI. VENIT HESPERUS ITE CAPELLAE. I poust whether poor Lady Charles was altogether enchanted by the news of her son’s engagement, cou- pled though it was with the announcement of a plan for her future well-being at which she had the good sense _tolaugh. Truth to tell, the match was neither a bril- liant nor an opportune one, and some credit was due to her for giving her consent to it almost without hesita- tion. ‘To be sure, she would have consented to Hurst- bourne’s marriage with a negress, if his heart had really been set upon so grievous an alliance; for she was one of those women whom Heaven has blessed with a sincere belief that the persons whom they love can do no wrong. Terque, quatreque beatze! we ad- mire or deride them, as our individual temperaments may dictate, but, whatever verdict we may see fit to pass upon them, we can hardly deny them the tribute of our envy. As for my consent, I have already intimated that that was not held worthy of a second thought by those who might have remembered that I was, after all, the head of my insignificant family and the legitimate Eomicboo m