CHAPTER XXXII. "And all these sorrows past shall serve, For sweet discourses in the time to come!" ROMEO AND JULIET. THE old tale of sorrows ending with marriage, where, unfortunately, people's troubles sometimes begin, might perhaps be spared, but we like to be old-fashioned and particular, and speak even of the world's reward to those who had endured the world's sorrows bravely. Therefore, we will say, that as the Baron of Allerdale, Aubrey so well remembered the trials of Lieutenant Conyers, that he had ever an attentive ear and a liberal hand for those who were suffering from what he knew by bitter experience was the most cruel of all poverty-the poverty of the struggling educated middle classes. In this, as in all other works of benevolence, he was joined heart and hand by his fair wife, Ellinor, the heiress of Ravenglas; nor did he lack the liberal coalition of Richard Musgrave and his brother Leonard, who lived together in all Christian charity and love, each, as he looked over the bitterness of past years, ever eager to condemn himself and forgive the other. As for Horatio Neville, with the beautiful Adela Conyers for his wife, he pursued his course, winning "golden opinions from all sorts of men," and respect and honour for a profession which, in the hands of such persons as Nicholas Benedict is a meet subject only of loathing and contempt. With regard to Colonel Colman, the world thought that Lord Allerdale and Aubrey Conyers were quite different persons, and that the conduct which was excusable towards one, was quite inexcusable towards the other; so Aubrey was offered a commission in the Guards, and Colonel Colman exchanged into a regiment ordered on foreign service. How the good squire Featherstonehaugh rejoiced in these events we need not say. No friend, however humble, was forgotten by the grateful Aubrey or his sister: Mrs. Windsor, and her daughter Charlotte, were placed in a comfortable position; the Harrises in a more honest mode of life; and the troubles and trials of the poor curate, Arlington, alleviated, so far as money and the tenderest sympathy could alleviate them. As the tide of good no less than evil fortune runs high when it takes the turn, it pleased General St. Leger to pardon in Lord Allerdale and his sister what he would not forgive in the dependents of his own bounty; and dying soon after Aubrey's accession to the title, he left the whole of his large fortune to be divided between Mrs. Neville and the inheritor of the LORDSHIP OF ALLERDALE ! THE END. THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY, In Monthly Volumes, 2s. 6d. each, in Crown 8vo, cloth; morocco, extra, 7s. 6d. WORKS ALREADY PUBLISHED. SECOND EDITION. 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