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292 REJOICING AT MAX’S HOME. lent as he was unavoidable, he at last allowed him- -self to be converted, and accepted both propositions as conveying incontrovertible facts. The “spiritual guardians” were rather more difficult to déal with. They naturally refused to re- cognize the betrothal, and invoked Heaven and the powers of darkness to their aid in opposing it. They menaced the bridegroom-elect with the pains of eternal punishment; he, in his turn, menaced them with the press, and declared he would take the whole town into his confidence, and relate in all the apers how they were trying to tear his bride from fink: in order to incarcerate her in a convent against her will. This caused them to reflect. The gover- nor’s fall had plainly shown the power of news- paper articles. | It was judged prudent to yield. The enemy re- treated, and Max, triumphant, remained master of the field. He was wise enough to hasten on the wedding as much as possible, and a month or two later he carried his young wife off to Switzerland. Brunnow, now possessed of independent means, thanks to the property he had recently inherited, insisted that his son and daughter-in-law should make his house their home for the present, as Max, absorbed by the strategy of his rapid campaign, had not found time to establish a practice of his own before marriage. The young man set himself dili- gently to work to regain lost time, and met with much success in his profession; nevertheless, the family remained domiciled under one common roof. The relations between father and son had under- gone a complete change since that scene by the latter’s sick-bed; and if ever any little difference threatened to arise, Agnes stepped in, and soon made all straight by her gentle mediation, the young wife having very speedily won her father-in-law’s whole heart to herself. The councilor still lived on in R——, under the scepter of Christine; but this state of things seemed to suit him, and he traveled southward regularly once a year to pay his daugh- ter a Visit. | Summer had come round again, The lake and (E(0) Eomicbooks