"I owe this to you, kind sir," he cried, seizing Sir Albert's hand.

I replied that I was surprized to hear a friend of Albert's making an interest in me for another, and that if love were a passion, I was any way sensible of, it could never be for an old man, and much to that purpose.

There was a woman at Antwerp, who had often given Astræa warning of Albert's fickleness and inconstancy, assuring her he never loved after enjoyment, and sometimes changed even before he had that pretence; of which she herself was an instance; Albert having married her, and deserted her on the wedding-night.

" In the Royal Belgian Palace there happened a few hours before the bombardment an incident revealing the simplicity and kindliness of King Albert's character.

"Fly, fly he cried, my touch profane "Oh, how the rest impart? "Rever'd old man!could Edwin stain "With Albert's blood the dart!"

Pair after pair were led forward, and when the turn of Albert's girl came, she won the heat easily.

But the silence and gloom of the place were hateful to Amelia, and Albert's deep melancholy and absent-mindedness were not the tokens of a lover.

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But now Metropolisville was coming in sight, and Albert's attention was attracted by the conversation of Mr. Minorkey and the fat gentleman.

"Whether they know it or not, I am." "I should think they'd know it just to look at him," said Katy, who thought that Albert's erudition must be as apparent to everybody as to herself.

" "Did you ever!" said Mrs. Plausaby, looking at her husband, who smiled knowingly (as much as to reply that he had often), and at Cousin Isa, who looked perplexed between her admiration at a certain chivalrous courage in Albert's devotion to his ideas, and her surprise at the ultraism of his opinions.

On the second evening after Albert's return, Smith Westcott, the chief clerk, the agent in charge of the branch store of Jackson, Jones & Co., in Metropolisville, called at the house of Plausaby.

For his part, he had a plan in view that he thought could not be objectionable to Albert's feelings.

The latter knew how long Albert's absence must be, and arranged his approaches to correspond.

The Pirate's Bride landed and took Westcott aboard, and all of Albert's rejoicing was turned to cursing, for there, right before his eyes, the Pirate's Bride ran her brown hull up alongside the white and graceful Lady of the Lake, and Smith Westcott stepped from the one to the other.

Isabel Marlay believed in Albert's innocence as she believed the hard passages in the catechism.

All the judges and juries and witnesses in the world could not convince her of Albert's guilt.

In reply to questions from her companion, Miss Minorkey told the story of Albert's conflict with Westcottshe stated the case with all the coolness of a dispassionate observer.

Helen glanced at them, and then at Albert's face.

To Albert's infidelity he gave no quarter.

Besides, he was not sure that Albert's questions might not force him into that dangerous heresy attributed to Arminius, that good works may be the impulsive cause by which God is moved to give His grace to the unconverted.

" Lurton walked away down the gallery from Albert's cell, and descended the steps that led to the dining-room, and was let out of the locked and barred door into the vestibule, and out of that into the yard, and thence out through other locks into the free air of out-doors.

Only don't forget to tell Albert's girl that he did not do it.

"And, of course," said Albert's mother apologetically, "when you can be with your own kin, it is better you know.

His father, who was delighted with Albert's industry, took him from school as soon as he had learned to read and write and apprenticed him to a goldsmith.