"Well, did he _not_ sing the comic song? I'm sure, if not, it was some one very like him." Travice enjoyed the mistake. "It was little Poyns, the lay-clerk, who sang the comic song," he said, looking at Mrs. St. John and Frederick. "When Poyns gets himself up in black, as he did to-day, he looks exactly like a clergyman; and his size and spectacles do bear a resemblance to Mr. Wilberforce. But it was not Mr. Wilberforce, Lady Anne." "Arkell," cried St. John, from his place on the sofa by the fire, Mrs. St. John being opposite to him, and the others dispersed as they chose about the small square room, glittering with costly furniture, "who was it came in unexpectedly and surprised you? Anne thinks it was one of the old college fellows." "It was Anderson. Don't you remember him? He has got his company now." "Anderson! I should like to see him. I hope he'll come and see me. Where's he stopping? I shall go out to-morrow." "You'll do no such thing, Frederick," interposed Mrs. St. John. "What a charming girl is Miss Lucy Arkell!" exclaimed Mrs. James to Travice. "She puts me greatly in mind of her mother, and yet she is not like her in the face. There is the same expression though, and she has the same gentle, sweet, modest manners. I like Lucy Arkell." "So do I," cried Mr. St. John. "If my heart were not bespoken, I'm sure I should give it to her." The words were uttered jestingly; nevertheless, Mrs. St. John glanced up uneasily. Frederick saw it. _He_ knew in what direction his heart was expected to be given, and he stole a glance involuntarily at Lady Anne; but it passed from her immediately to rest upon his mother--a glance in which there was incipient rebellion to the wishes of his family; and Mrs. St. John had feared that it might be so, since the day when he had said, in his off-hand way, that Anne St. John was not the wife for his money. Mrs. St. John's pulses were beating a shade quicker. There might be truth in his present careless assertion, that his heart was bespoken. END OF VOL. I. LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MESSRS. TINSLEY BROTHERS' NEW WORKS, _Obtainable at all the Libraries._ NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "DENIS DONNE." THEO LEIGH: A NOVEL. By ANNIE THOMAS, Author of "Denis Donne." In 3 vols. BITTER SWEETS: A LOVE STORY. By JOSEPH HATTON. In 3 vols. SHOOTING AND FISHING IN THE RIVERS, PRAIRIES, AND BACKWOODS OF NORTH AMERICA. By B. H. REVOIL. In 2 vols. MR. SALA'S MY DIARY IN AMERICA IN THE MIDST OF WAR. By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. In 2 vols. "In two large volumes Mr. Sala reproduces a portion of the correspondence from America which he lately published in a London daily paper. He has added, however, a good deal which did not appear in the columns of that journal. Mr. Sala's is decidedly a clever, amusing, and often brilliant book."--_Morning Star._ THE THIRD EDITION OF