It remains now only to speak of Lord Villiers, who accompanied Mr. Trevanion into Cornwall, upon landing from Holland; but going thither merely to embrace and bless his boy, ere he hurried to his dying uncle in Yorkshire, he did not mix himself with the happy party at Treverderet.. The Duke of Buckingham's death took place, as the historians of that time tell us, in the spring of that year. Villiers devoted himself previously to all the offices of a son by his kinsman's sick bed; and, when the duke's will was opened, found proof that, in ceasing from the vanities and vices into which this very Buckingham had laboured to bring him up, he had not made himself less an object of the same man's regard, when he stood upon the confines of another world.

Purposing, then, to settle himself principally at one of his country residences, and having recovered from the extravagance of his first feelings against a polished education, Lord Villiers made arrangements for giving himself the delight of his child's residence with him, and withdrew the boy from his peasant home in Cornwall: yet to

Treverderet the little Charles duly came when his father visited there; for he was at that most endearing age in which innocent prattle delights, by giving sudden glimpses of acute sense or sweeter tenderness; and dearly as both Lord Chas-cawen and his daughter loved the angel child of their Arundell, they could not fail to cherish, most fondly, the remembrance of little Villiers's beguilement of their long. anxiety on his account.

For the first four months after Arundell's return, Miss Trevanion felt sure that she doted upon the child of her loved brother and equally dear sister, to a degree which distanced her attachment to the poor little Charles; but insensibly the latter appeared to have regained more than his due share in her affections. When she pressed him to her breast, a softer, and a softer feeling came over her, nearly approaching to sadness but attributing this to pity for his motherless state, she sought no farther into its cause. The sweet boy himself ended her delusion. One evening (when the little Fulk was three, and Charles Villiers, four years old,) she sat in the bay of a window,

suffering the younger child to amuse himself with the tresses of her hair, whilst she told the other tales suggested by some figures in the stained glass before them.

Lord Villiers, passing out of the room with Lord Chas-cawen, stopped to listen for a moment to her ingenious invention, to which his boy was hearkening, "the rapt soul sitting" in the large lifted eye of his father's blue. As the legend ended, the little creature, in a transport, flung himself upon Miss Trevanion's neck, and laying his pretty cheek to hers, exclaimed, “I wish you were my mamma!" Lord Villiers crimsoned from head to foot; her father looked on him, and smiled.

From that moment, Aura Trevanion's eyes ever fled those of Lord Villiers; but with that blushing, trembling movement, which none may mistake for scorn or indifference. The enraptured Villiers kindled with hope, where once he had only sighed over what he believed a presumptuous wish. Love, led to hope, is not long silent. A few months after this incident, Arundell Trevanion's happiness was completed, by perfecting that of his sister and his friend;

and it is but just to say, that no after conduct of the wholly changed Villiers gave him cause to regret his reliance upon a reformation grounded on religious convictions.

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