‘I was quite sure of that,’ said Nelly, leaning towards him with glowing eyes and expressive face. The eyes were full of soft gratitude, and something that looked like a tender pride. ‘I know that,’ she repeated; ‘you have always been so different!’ The voice had fallen quite low, so that Frank had to lean forward to hear it. And there was encouragement in her look for anything he might have had to say, for anything he might have been moved to do, in the excitement of the moment. And Frank’s heart was softened by compunction and the sense that he was not so blameless as he had claimed to be. The crisis of his fate had come. THE END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. LONDON: Printed by STRANGEWAYS & WALDEN, Castle St. Leicester Sq. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Three Brothers; vol. 2/3, by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant