Wilmot. "He had cast off his first wife, and cut off the inheritance of her daughter without remorse, and was not inclined to be more favourable to his second, when she had outlived the whim that attached him to her."

"Papa," said John, "I am quite disappointed. Before you began this reign, as you said King Henry was the instrument designed by Providence to bring about our glorious reformation, I expected he was at once a great and good man."

"You judged erroneously. It is not always great or good men that Heaven selects for extraordinary purposes, an example that was strongly verified in the case of Henry, whose quarrel with the pope brought about suddenly what otherwise might have taken many years to ef fect. To me such events are instances of the power and wisdom of God, who can turn the most adverse means to the accomplishment of his will."

"The fate of Anne Boleyn," said Mrs. Wilmot, " presents a useful lesson

to young women, particularly to those who are advanced to a rank beyond that where they were originally placed. The gaiety of manuers she had acquired in France, though, I have no doubt, perfectly innocent, furnished her enemies with a pretence to ruin her with the king."

"She was naturally cheerful," answered Anne," and it must be particularly hard to live in a constant state of restraint."

"I allow the justice of the observation," replied Mrs. Wilmot," but she was well acquainted with the character of Henry before she married him, an should have studied his humour, which, proud, vindictive, and overbearing, could no more endure a sharer in his wife's smiles than in his regal authority."

"Heaven keep us from such characters!" replied Charles; "she naturally expected an affectionate husband, not an imperious master."

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Unequal marriages are seldom hap

py," said Mr. Wilmot; "Anne Boleyn doubtless considered her youth and beauty an ample compensation for her greatness, while Henry, on his part, thought the obligation scarcely ever to be sufficiently repaid."

" I am

Papa," interrupted John, impatient to hear how the queen's imprisonment terminated."

"To-morrow I will satisfy you. Our conversation has been sufficiently long this evening.-Good night, my dear children."

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