far beyond those years.

His figure was gracefully but robustically formed, and his face had not a particle of colour to break the 'le expression of its contour; but the softness which might have been supposed to verge almost upon weakness, was altogether obviated by a lofty forehead, which but for the darkness of his complexion, would have been white as the driven snow. It expressed discrimination, decision, and unfailing resolution. His hair, according to the fashion of the period, had grown to a considerable length, and as it fell upon his shoulders and clustered round his brow, its dark brown tinge, almost black, formed a beautiful framework to the index of a noble mind such as his features displayed.

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There," after a time he exclaimed, "itis at last all finished. Everything in order. There are the philosophers-there the metaphysicians there the geographers— there the historians-there the playwrights, and the rest of them, all arranged in

due order, according to their ages; and I think old Hildebrand himself, if he were to come back, would be satisfied with his stores of learning. And what a fund of enjoyment has the arrangement of these books been to me. How dull might not this place have been without it! It was hard work to begin, and I little thought what a many happy days-aye, happy days though I am a captive, away from those I love, and uncertain what to-morrow may bring forth-aye, happy days then, I may say, the employment would give me. To-morrow-ah, to-morrow! my dear Helen-my kind father and friend-my more than mother, where is your lot now cast in these times of trouble and oppression."

A tear dimmed his eye as the thought of those he loved crossed the mind of Herbert Endsleigh; but he was not one to yield to desponding thoughts. In his calculation of the future, he was accustomed

to submit to the will of God, who he knew could bring the greatest good out of the worst apparent evil instead of estimating what is called the probability of events, and, he continued,

"But there is a God whose power is as infinite as His love; and in His keeping they are safe, be they where they will. May He then keep them. I will not despond for the future; but now I have finished my work, I will go again through that section of Plato, which I promised myself. What an admirable thing is a good library."

He had put forth his hand to reach the volume he spoke of, when his attention was attracted by the click of the door lock, and years his

a young man, some four or five junior, entered the apartments.

Though little more than a youth, the manliness of his bearing and the undaunted, though modest, cast of his countenance, gave him the aspect of a man of mature

age. His costume, perhaps, added not a little to this effect, for it was what few, with the opportunity of indulging in a greater variety of dress, would have chosen.

It presented the uniform of the Parliamentary army, if the Parliamentary army could be said to have had any uniform. It was, at any rate, perhaps, to use more appropriate terms-the style generally assumed by the less ascetic of the leaders of the rebellion; and consisted of a plain, light brown jerkin, buttoned close down the middle with large moulds of silver, with, for a vanity, the device of a twig or branch raised upon the surface in frosted work. The vest or jerkin overlapped the lower garment, and was finished at the bottom with a sort of castellated Vandyke. The breeches were of the same material, and bound at the knee by a fillet of gold lace. His legs were encased by a pair of cotton hose, then newly introduced, and over them hehad drawn a pair of calf-skin boots, which

stood in rigid folds half way up the leg. His hair, which was flaxen, and abundantly luxuriant, fell in rich tresses over his shoulders, and seemed to show how superfluous was the taper high-crowned hat, which hardly sufficed, with its narrow brim to shade his eyes. His complexion was fair in the extreme, and lighted with a glow of the ruddiest health, while a smile continually indicative of good feeling and hilarity, radiated brightly, from his light blue eyes. There might be a slight rise of the aquiline in the nose, but the countenance was decidedly Grecian. A belt of maroon leather, with gold emblazoning, in stripes, was slung across his shoulders, in which hung a sword, that, from its length, might have been the sabre of a dragoon; and this with the exception of a long drooping feather in his hat, completed his costuine. was an air of boldness, but yet of inquietude, in his countenance, which indicated a determined spirit ill at ease, yet was there

There