. Stories and legends of travel and history, for children . s mens heartsstrong against sin, but soft toward the erring. After the services, when all save she had leftthe church. Lady Evremond lingered for sometime before a white marble monument, whichstood under a high church window. The sculp-ture on this monument represented the youngLord Evremond, as he lay on his couch, whendying,—and an angel, with a face very like his,lovingly lifting him from his mothers arms, tobear him to heaven. As Lady Evremond gazed on the marbleimage of her dead boy, she murmured: Have I not been true to thy trus
. Stories and legends of travel and history, for children . s mens heartsstrong against sin, but soft toward the erring. After the services, when all save she had leftthe church. Lady Evremond lingered for sometime before a white marble monument, whichstood under a high church window. The sculp-ture on this monument represented the youngLord Evremond, as he lay on his couch, whendying,—and an angel, with a face very like his,lovingly lifting him from his mothers arms, tobear him to heaven. As Lady Evremond gazed on the marbleimage of her dead boy, she murmured: Have I not been true to thy trust, my son ? Late in the dim twilight of that day, anotherform was kneeling beside that monumental 62 GREENWICH HOSPITAL THE PARK, ETC. couch. It was Robert Selwyn ; and when herose, there were tears on that sweet marble night long they glistened in the pale moon-light, and sad starlight, shining through thathigh church window; but in the morning thehappy sunbeams came softly down and kissedthem all away. ^amptnn Cmtrt. THE LADY MARYS VISION. 6*. OW well I remember onepleasant morning in September—more than two years ago, Ideclare I—when a merry partyof us, English and Americans, met at the count-ing house of our noble friend, Mr. B , to go from thence to Hampton Court. It was in thecity of London that we met. This is entered 66 HAMPTON COURT. from the town, which holds most of the parksand palaces of royalty and the nobility, by anold, old gateway, called Temple Bar. When theQueen is to pay a visit to the city, Temple Bargate is closed, and she must respectfully askadmittance of the lord mayor, and he must gra-ciously present the keys to her before she maycome in. The lord mayor is the real king ofLondon, and takes precedence of royalty in allprocessions in the city, as, for instance, thefuneral procession of the Duke of Wellington,after it passed Temple Bar. All lord mayorsare elected from the board of aldermen ; theyserve but one year, during which time they li
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