. Billy Bellew [electronic resource]: a novel. reak , I believe she is perfectly contented—though why she should be contented, Heaven aloneknows ! That was a queer business about her andBellew, Harry remarked musingly ; I shouldnever have believed it if you hadnt told me. Onewould have said they were the last couple in theworld to take a fancy to one another. And youthink she really did care for him ? I thought so; I am not sure that I think has always been incomprehensible to me, BILLY MAKES HIS ESCAPE 315 and always will be, I suppose. Most likely that isbecause I am to
. Billy Bellew [electronic resource]: a novel. reak , I believe she is perfectly contented—though why she should be contented, Heaven aloneknows ! That was a queer business about her andBellew, Harry remarked musingly ; I shouldnever have believed it if you hadnt told me. Onewould have said they were the last couple in theworld to take a fancy to one another. And youthink she really did care for him ? I thought so; I am not sure that I think has always been incomprehensible to me, BILLY MAKES HIS ESCAPE 315 and always will be, I suppose. Most likely that isbecause I am too much of a sinner to enter into thesensations of a saint. Such as you are, you are good enough for me,said Harry complacently. I flatter myself that I am. But EdmundKirby isnt good enough for Winnie, and if you arewasting sympathy upon her, as I can see that youare, you may take comfort from the thought thatMr. Bellew wouldnt have been good enough for hereither. THE END. BILLING! AND SONS, PRINTERS, QUILDrORD. MARIE ANTOINETTES LAST Give sorrow words: the yrief that doth not speakWliianwa *U» nm-feaugta and bids it break.—Shakespeare. WHAT IS MORE TERRIBLE THAN REVOLUTION ?.; As clouds of adversity gathered around, Marie Antoinette displayed a Patience and Courage in Unparalleled Sufferings such as few Saints and Martyrs have equalled. . .The Pure Ore of her nature was but hidden under the cross of worldliness, and the |scorching fire of suffering revealed one of the tenderest hearts, arid one of the Bravest .Natures that history records. (Which will haunt all who have studied that tremendous drama,THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,) When one reflects that a century which considered itself enlightened, of the mostrefined civilization, etuis with public acts of such barbarity, one begins to doubt of ,Human Nature itself, and fear tnat the brute which is always in Human nature, has the ]ascendancy ! -Gower. ,„ TH|g L|FE,S F|TFUL 0REAM THE DRYING UP OF A SINGLE TEAR HA
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