"I am too well apprised, madam," I replied, "of the workings of that organ, whose changes often startle ourselves, to be surprised at the words you then made use of. I knew not, after all, if you did not exhibit as much heroism as Brutus, who condemned his son to death; certainly more than Zaleucus, who condemned his to the loss of an eye, having first submitted to the loss of his own, to make the love of a father quadrate with the justice of the law-giver." "And what say you to yourself, to whom I owe the safety of my Eugene?" she added. "An Acesias might have accomplished all that I accomplished, madam--for all I did was to keep off sleep; but, if the secret must needs be told, I had some doubts at least of the humanity of my proceedings, whatever I might have thought of my duty." Eugene afterwards went to the East Indies, where he made a fortune. Some pecuniary embarrassments afterwards overtook the family, on which occasion he sent them home the one half of the money he had made, whereby they were again placed in a condition of affluence. A present was also sent to me. It is not yet very many years ago since I saw Eugene. He had assumed another name in India, where he had married a very beautiful woman, and to whom he again returned. THE UNBIDDEN GUEST, OR, JEDBURGH'S REGAL FESTIVAL. "In the mid revels, the first ominous night Of their espousals, when the room shone bright With lighted tapers--the king and the queen leading The curious measures, lords and ladies treading The self-same strains--the king looks back by chance, And spies a strange intruder fill the dance; Namely, a mere anatomy, quite bare, His naked limbs both without flesh and hair, (As we decipher Death,) who stalks about Keeping true measure till the dance be out." _Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels._