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006 REYNOLDS’ WORKS each other, and do not seem to want any addition to their family. The tenants and peasantry on their estate speak in the highest terms of them. The count is an excellent landlord, and the countess is profuse, though secret and unostentatious, with her charities. You will find amongst. your letters one from that excellent-hearted Spanish noble- man inviting you to stay with him.” ‘Another visit that I am resolved to pay,’’ responded Hawkshaw. “ These pictures of domestic felicity quite enchant me. Pray proceed with them.” “Oh, they are not yet exhausted,” exclaimed Denison. ‘““T visited Everton Park, which is in Hertfordshire, about twenty miles from London. You know that this belongs to Lord Everton, who married Miss Leyden.’’ “And a sweet pretty girl I thought her on her wedding- day,’ cried Hawkshaw. ‘“ Four such lovely brides were never to be seen before assembled in one room, and never will be seen again. By the way, what has become of the young lord’s uncle, — the old villain who kept him so long in captivity, deprived of his just rights? ”’ “He perished miserably of some incurable and excruciat- ing malady, about six or eight months ago, on the Continent. From intellgence which reached the Marquis of Eagledean, it appears that two hangers-on, a man named Mark Bellamy, and a woman called Mrs. Martin, clung to him until the very last. They led him a fearful life, spending upon themselves the greater portion of the income so generously allowed by the much-injured nephew, and leaving the old man some- times in want of the barest necessaries. However, he is gone to another world, and what has become of Bellamy and Mrs. Martin I have not heard.”’ “But I presume and hope that Lord Everton and his beautiful wife are as happy as the other couples whom you have mentioned? ’’ said Hawkshaw. “Equally so,’ responded Mr. Denison. ‘“ They have one child, a son whom they dote upon, and whom they contemplate with pride as the heir to the title and estates. Everton Park is one of the most beautiful spots in England. It was thither, as you are aware, that Frank and Elizabeth were conveyed in their childhood to see their then unhappy mother, the present happy Marchioness of LEagledean. Frank and the Countess of Christoval have been on a visit ) CONNIE DOO KS (E(0)