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LAST FUNEREAL RITES

ing jests for a brighter roseate; and now her blushes outglowed the scarlet vestments of her admirer, when Lord Murray said, "I hope, Lady Dulsibella, you have prevailed with Lord Glenonan to recal the sage, or perhaps his Lordship may do as a substitute."

Lady Dulsibella's spirit was roused by this gross allusion to sentiments she had not dared to scan in her utmost privacy. She hastily said, "I have never beheld lord or gentleman worthy to become a substitute for the descendant of Ercildoun—none who could equal him as an instructive and engaging companion."

"It is, I see, Lord Glenonan's turn to blush," exclaimed the Earl of Murray, with an unmerciful laugh. "Is not he a very reverend preceptor for a fair novice? You look incredulous, Lady Dulsibella; but, on my sacred honour, I affirm that your peerless sage and Lord Glenonan are identically the same; and for this reason the ladies and I eluded your inquiries about the venerable companion of your voyage."

Lady Dulsibella, with the consent of her father, was in a few weeks the bride of Lord Glenonan. The romantic delights of their first acquaintance gilded the subsequent conjugal union through a long and prosperous life. The portrait of his Dulsibella, which the old Baroness had sent to Lord Glenonan's mother, was still his bosom treasure, though the lovely ori-

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