ELLEN GLANVILLE.

BY

A LADY OF RANK.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA.

E. L. CAREY AND A. HART.

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ELLEN GLANVILLE.

CHAPTER I.

And when pain

And fevers hot came thronging round his brain,
Her shape and voice fell like a balm upon
His sad and dark imagination.

A gentle minister was she.-BARRY CORNWALL.

Now must they meet with change of cheer,
With mutual looks of shame and fear;
Now must Matilda stray apart,

To school her disobedient heart;

And Redmond now alone must rue

The love he never can subdue.-WALTER SCOTT.

THE messenger was Mr. Howard's servant. His master, he said, had gone down alone ten days before, upon business, to Howard Lodge, and went over to Liverpool to see Mr. Glanville. He found him confined to his room with a feverish cold, and thought him so seriously unwell, that he insisted on his returning with him to Howard Lodge, where he could be more comfortable than in his present noisy quarters. For the first day or two Mr. Glanville seemed to be the better for the change; but then his fever returned with greater violence, and Mr. Howard sent over to Liverpool for Dr. L———, who looked grave upon the case, and said it had been neglected too long. Mr. Howard had even then pressed Edward to let him write to his family; but he peremptorily refused:-" he knew that he should be better soon-i -it would be ridiculous to give his father and Ellen such unnecessary alarm."

Mr. Howard then consulted Dr. L—, as to what had best be done. He said there was no positive danger then, but there