And so the winter snows and clouds came and went, and the spring sun shone out once more, calling into life and being a thousand sweet sights and sounds. It lighted up the grey house at Harleyford, and fell slantwise through the tall elms on to the tender grass beneath. It shone through the east window of Harleyford Old Church, on to a quiet wedding party assembled there one bright May morning, and played in many coloured beams on two monuments standing side by side in the grassy graveyard. And far away in the lonely valley of the Cevennes, the same spring sunshine lighted up a quiet weed-grown resting-place, and fell in quivering lines and curves upon a simple wooden cross, engraved in rude peasant’s carving, with these few words— “ISOLA.” “_Fidèle jusques à la mort._” Transcriber’s Note This transcription is based on scans available through Historical Texts from a copy held by the British Library: https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/bl-002924134 Except where noted, inconsistencies in spelling (for example, “gray” vs. “grey”) and hyphenation (for example, “grave-yard” vs. “graveyard”) were not standardized. In addition, no changes were made to variant spellings such as “delirous”. The following changes were made to the text: • Added a table of contents. • p. 11: aimless, well-nigh broken hearted.—Changed “broken hearted” to “broken-hearted” for consistency. • p. 26: Mr Hill glances at them—Added a period after “Mr”. • p. 29: “How dare yon insult me thus?”—Changed “yon” to “you”. • p. 51: it would be best to re-commence on the morrow.—Changed “re-commence” to “recommence” for consistency. • p. 52: ‘Here,’ he called to the groom, ‘ride alongside of me, and tell me all that is to be known about the girl Williams and her flight!’”—Changed this sentence so that it is not a quotation within a quotation. Deleted the opening single quotation mark before “Here”; changed the closing single quotation mark after “Here” to a closing double quotation mark; changed the opening single quotation mark before “rule” to an opening double quotation mark; and deleted the closing single quotation mark before the closing double quotation mark at the end of the sentence. • pp. 61–62: my dear, young friend, he added (he had known Hardcastle from his boyhood), and spare them—Added a closing double quotation after “friend,” and added an opening double quotation mark before “and spare them”. • p. 63: a bright young voice pouring forth a flood of question, answer, and exclammation in a breath—Changed “exclammation” to “exclamation”. • p. 95: There was no rival beauty in her way now!”—Deleted the quotation mark at the end of the sentence. • p. 115: with but one word inscribed, “_Aimée_”—Added a period to the end of the sentence. • p. 127: In reply to this, Mrs. Warden wrote a long letter—Changed “Warden” to “Varley”. • p. 138: when sorrow seemed a far away thing—Changed “far away” to “far-away”.