Wonderful was the contrast between her youthful beauty, so still in its repose, and the old haggard Emperor, fevered with the lust of beauty and love of life.

But that morning, his heart throbbing with ill-concealed anguish, for the following day he would he miles from Oakwood, never, never to behold Emmeline again, his frame weakened, his blood fevered from the long-continued mental struggle, the stern address of Mr. Hamilton stung him to the quick.

Nobili, every drop of whose blood runs fevered in his veins, turns toward her.

The public mind of England at that period was fevered to a state of madness by the domestic quarrel that raged within the kingdom against the Catholics.