Berenger; but the old chest in the ancient watchtower, and its sad history, retained the first place in her remembrance

"Other days came back to her, though the tone
Was changed and solemn, like the cloudy groan
Of dying thunder on the distant wind."-

CHAPTER IV.

It was a sad morning at Castle Berenger when the Lyndseys took their departure. The Misses Berenger and Antonia promised to correspond with great punctuality, books were borrowed, drawings lent, work-patterns exchanged; and, in short, all the preliminaries of friendship were arranged between the young ladies. Lady Lyndsey took an affectionate leave of her hostess, and earnestly entreated her to make Sleyton Court her resting-place, whenever she or any of her family journeyed northwards.

Lord Berenger was really affected in saying farewell. He had become tenderly attached to Antonia ; her gentle sprightliness, her open truthful character peculiarly attracted him, and had even power to draw his mind from the habitual and harassing thoughts which oppressed him, connected with the unsatisfactory state of the political horizon, in which the English Roman Catholics were so deeply involved. Lord Berenger was of course cognisant of