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150 Sent TUE MYSTERIES OF LONDON. 143 that nure-minded gisl—‘ Begone, indeed!’ repeated | maker away in their carriage; and now the wile woman the woman, recovering her insolence: ‘that’s a pretty | who only an hour before had menaced Julia with thing te say to me, that you owe money to. However, ; ejtctinent—who had insulted her by offering to search once more I tell you that Iwill be paid to-night; or: the few miserable things in the room to see if any had else, when my husband comes home from the public- | been made away with—and who had hinted at an in- house, off you'll bundle !’—Thus speaking, the wretch | famous proposal from which the young creature’s soul bounced ont of the room, leaving the door vide open | recoiled in horror and loathing,—that same detestable behind her. wretch was now most assiduous in offering the use of “ Julia wrang her hands in despair; and again she | herparlour and rendering hergelf'so officiously busy, that asked herself those unanswerable questiaus — What | Lady Hartley was forced to order her in a peremptory would become of them? and what was to be done? | manner to retire. In fine, all necessary preparations At this moment, when her brain appeared to reel and | being made so that Julia and her brother might appear reason was rocking on its throne, the sounds of hasty | in a becoming way at the splendid mansion whither steps ascending the stairs met her ear, and she heard | they were now about to repair, the happy party entered Harry's voice exclaim, ‘Up higher still—to the very | the carriage, which drove straight te Hartley House, top!’ And up those hasty footsteps came :—good | where Caroline's husband received Julia and Harry in heavens! were fresh miseries in store for her? But | the kindest possible manner. scarcely had this thought traversed poor Julia’sima-} “Thus was the aspect of affairs signally changed ; ginaliun, when sume one darled into the room—and | and from the cold, cheerless garret, where want stared as she was sinking on the floor, through terror, want, | them in the face, were the sister and brother suddenly ond exhaustion, she was received in the arms of the | wafted into the very bosom of luxury, comfort, and Marquis of Wilmington !—‘ Julia, dearest Julial’ hel happiness. Virtue met with its reward, after the cried, in an impassioned tone, as he strained the in- | many trials to which it had been subjected, and sunsible fourm of hi: beloved one to his breast: aud} the numerous temptations it had triumphantly that voice, sounding on her ear a3 if heard in the midst | pasced through. Mr, Richardson, the lawyer, was ofa dream, recalled her to herseif;—and opening her) overjoyed when the Marquis called upen him next exc: slowly, she encountered the tcnder loos that | morning and related all that had happened; and the wore bent upon her—*Is it possible!’ she exclaimed, | instant his Jordship had taken his departure, tho tearing: hicrself from the nobleman’s embrace: ‘ your} worthy solicitor hastened to Hanover Square, resolved, lcrdship here? —‘Yes: here to implore your pardon | if possible, to accomplish a certain project which he fur the past; to declare to you how profound is the re- | had in view. Presenting himself to the Dowager- evet and how bitter the remorse I have expericnced | Marchioness, he argued with her upon the inutility fur the unfeeling haste with which I judged yon on | and injustice, the folly and the cruelty of ber oppo- the barest suspicion; and to offer you my hand, Juliay’ | sition to an alliance which so nearly regarded her scn’s added the Marquis, ‘if you will now conde-cend to | happiness; and he dilated so warmly upon the good acecpt it!’—But Inced not pause to deceribe in de- } qualities of Julig Murray, that her ladyship, who had tail the discours: which now ensued: suffice it to sa¥ | at first heard him with impatience, began to listen at- that the nobleman gave the fullest explanation of all | tentively. In a word, Mr. Richardson succeeded in that had occurred since he had last seen Julin—how | persuading the Marchioness to have the credit of ing sister had confessed her frailty, and thus cleared up | gssenting to an union which she had not the power the suspicion which had so unfortunately fallkuupentto prevent; and the policy of this step at last Juliaehow the child had died—how Lady Caroline triumpbed over her other repugnances. She accord- had inarried Lord Harthey—and how every po-sibie ingly river the bell, ordered the carriage, and pro- search had been made for so many long, weary months. | ceeded with the lawyer to Hartley Mouse, where ber after Mizs Murray. It must be added that the Muar-| presence augmented the happiness already experienced qs, in his almost ceaseless Wi ndcrings about the bencath that roof Thus nothing was now wanting metropolis in the prosecution cf that search, happened | to complete the felicity of all those in whom, I hope, on this memorable evening to pass through the very | you are interested ; and it was astonishing how speedily neighbourhood where Julia resided ; and as Ifarry | the bloom came back to the countenance of Julia, and emerged from the pawnbroker's shop, the light flashed the ruddy hnes of health to the cheeks of little Harry. full Upen the little fellow’s countenance, which, in “Six weeks after the discovery of the orphans in spite of its altered appearance, was immediately re- | their wretched garret, Julia became the Marchioness cosnised by the Marquis. of Wilmington. Uappy—happy was that bridal, and “But little more remains 40 be told. A messenger { beautiful was the blushing bride—so beautiful that a was instantly despatched to Hartley House with a note | stranger would not have suspected tlie privations and from Lord Wilmington; and in legs than an hour his miseries which she had undergone. And, as if heaven, sister Caroline, accompanied by her faithful lady’s maid, | in its Justice, were determined to afford a signal proof who had charge of a box full of clothes, arrived in her | that though it can chasten,1t can also reward as fully— carriage at the door of the house where Julia occupicd from the day that this union took place, J ulia and her the miserable garret! Affecting indeed was the meet-} brother have not known a care. Possessing the power ing between the two friends; and while the Marquis | to do goood, the Marchioness of W ilmington has been took Harry away with him to the nearest ready-made enabled to soothe many an afflicted heart; and her clothes’ shop to equip the boy from head to foot innew | experience of the past has taught her that the severest apparel, Lady Hartley hastily made such a change m | inisery is that which pines unseen and hides itself in Julia’s appearance, by means of the contents of the box | garrets—not that which obtrudes itself, in the shape before alluded to, that when his lordship returned he j of mendicity, upon the public eye. Ter secret charities swas charmed to sce that, though pale, she was still | are therefore boundless; and the elevation of sucha eminentiy beautiful. In the meantime the rumour | woman to rank and the possession of immense wealth, hud spread throughout the house how a great noble- I has proved bencficial to thousands. I must not forget ynan and agreat lady had come to take the poor dress- ; to observe that the housekeeper who hal accompanied ed t i @o EOMMICIOO© SS (SO