"If there is one person whom I would more especially seek in kindness to serve, it is you, Harriet," she resumed, putting her hand gently on Harriet's arm--and her fingers accidentally touched the chain that Daniel Ferrar had hung round the girl's neck in his perfidy. "Revenge!--from me!" "The very idea of my giving up Louis is absurd," was Harriet's rejoinder, as they came out of the withy walk. "Thank you all the same, Maria Lease; and there's my hand. I see now that you meant kindly: but no one shall set me against my promised husband." Maria shook the hand in silence. "Look here, Maria--don't go and tell your beautiful scandal to sharp Susan Timmens. Not that I care whether you do or not, except on the score of contention. She would strike up fresh opposition, and it might come to scratching and fighting. My temper has borne enough: one can't be a lamb always." The wedding came off on Easter Tuesday. Harriet wore a bright silk dress, the colour of lilac, with a wreath and veil. When the latter ornaments came home, Miss Timmens nearly fainted. Decent young women in their station of life were married in bonnets, she represented: not in wreaths and veils. But Harriet Roe, reared to French customs, said bonnets could never be admissible for a bride, and she'd sooner go to church in a coal-scuttle. The Batley girls, in trains and straw-hats, were bridesmaids. Miss Timmens wore a new shawl and white gloves; and poor little David Garth--who was to die of fright before that same year came to an end--stood with his hand locked in his mother's. And so, in the self-same church where she had sat displaying her graces before the ill-fated Daniel Ferrar, and by the same young clergyman who had preached to her then, Harriet became the wife of Louis Roe, and went away with him to London. * * * * * The next move in the chain of events was the death of David Garth in Willow Cottage. It occurred in November, when Tod and I were staying at home, and has been already told of. James Hill escaped without punishment: it was said there was no law to touch him. He protested through thick and thin that he meant no harm to the boy; to do him justice, it was not supposed he had: he was finely repentant for it, and escaped with a reprimand.