... sternly, than know sbe was so lost, so disgraced, as to leave the man who saved my life — the man who has cnly been too good, too kind to her, and to ail of us— for a youth like Beaton. Oh ! I pray God she may not have done so ! said Ruth, with a ...

... [NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.] JEZEBEL'S FRIENDS. A HOVEL, EY DORA RUSSELL, Author of ' Footprints in the Snow, The Ercken Seal. The Track of tue Storm, &c. &c. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. J CHAPTER XV. Kenard ooes Home. Ke__ria Scaforth went straight from ...

... making the grey-haired man by her side feel for her aS the ardour and devotion of his lost youth. During tbat loet youth he bad been engaged to a pretty girl who had died of consumption, and for years and years he had remained constant to her memory. It bad ...

... with sometimes ; I see all that — but Buth, try to look a little happier for my sake ; it makes me miser- able to think your life has been sacrificed. These words went straight to Buth's heart. I wiU try, she said ; it put me out seeing Kenard Seaforth ...

... which he clasped tightly, though he uttered no word. There I we are friends again, said Frances, a moment or two later, drawing away her hand ; and now let us remain friends. We must not talk any nonsense, you know ; but. all tbe same, we shall ...

... the other was spending her quiet days try- ing to do some little good ; to wipe away some tears, to lighten Bcme burdens amongst those around her. Colonel Forth, in his fault-finding way, had grumbled to his old friend Kenyon that Ruth was always going ...

... successful soldier, having twice obtained promotion for dis- tinguished sen ice. But his military career was suddenly cut short. His elder brother, the head of a long line of country squires, died unmarried after a short illness, and Colonel Kenyon was ...

... to force her to marry him, but he showed neither mercy nor pity ! And Frances entreated Ruth to save her ; acd, for ber sister's sake— to save her trom dis- grace and shame — Ruth broke her word to me, and married a man whom she absolutely hated. But ...

... A YOUTHFUL POISONER At Chester, yesterday, Eliz\beth Robert, agad nice yenrs, was charred with attempting to poison Annie Ilodgkinson, a young womin. Def er dent's father was a widower, and his children lodged wi[h the mother of Miss Hodgkinson, to whom ...

... married him and wrecked my whole life to save her, you know what she has done ': r. |r he , is worthless— utterly worthless, said beaiortb, with strong indignation. i meant to keep the secret till I died ; but she hag broken all ties, all honour ...

... woman, that friend of yours, Mrs. Dixon, I think, began the Colonel, who joined Mr. Appleby in High-street for the purpose of making nic proposed inquiries. Charming — I calf her charming, answered the vicar, ?? with all the vivacity of youth, combined ...

... darkling sky more than once as she went on, and the lowering clouds seemed to her like welcome friends. They would drive any loiterers indoors.she thought, and save her from prying or suspicious eyes. The boatmen in the bay ehe knew, by this time, would be ...