There was no hope for their distress. His wife had, unknown to Glendower (for she dreaded his pride), written several times to a relation, who, though distant, was still the nearest in blood which fate had spared her, but ineffectually; the scions of a large and illegitimate family, which surrounded him, utterly prevented the success, and generally interrupted the application, of any claimant on his riches but themselves. Glendower, whose temper had ever kept him aloof from all but the commonest acquaintances, knew no human being to apply to. Utterly unable to avail himself of the mine which his knowledge and talents should have proved; sick, and despondent at heart, and debarred by the loftiness of honour, or rather principle that nothing could quell, from any unlawful means of earning bread, which to most minds would have been rendered excusable by the urgency of nature,--Glendower marked the days drag on in dull and protracted despair, and envied every corpse that he saw borne to the asylum in which all earth’s hopes seemed centred and confined. CHAPTER LVIII. For ours was not like earthly love. And must this parting be our very last? No! I shall love thee still when death itself is past. ...... Hush’d were his Gertrude’s lips! but still their bland And beautiful expression seem’d to melt With love that could not die! and still his hand She presses to the heart, no more that felt. Ah, heart! where once each fond affection dwelt. CAMPBELL.