But were we to enter into all the processes by which Lady Markham changed from the “That can never be!” of her first light on the subject, to giving a reluctant consent to Frances’ marriage, we should require another volume. It may be enough to say that in after-days, Captain Gaunt--but he was then Colonel--thought Constance a very handsome woman, yet could not understand how any one in his senses could consider the wife of Claude Ramsay worthy of a moment’s comparison with his own. “Handsome, yes, no doubt,” he would say; “and so is Nelly Markham, for that matter,--but of the earth, earthy, or of the world, worldly; whereas Frances----” Words failed to express the difference, which was one with which words had nothing to do. THE END. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A House Divided Against Itself; vol. 3 of 3, by Margaret Oliphant