heard to remark that he regretted he had ever been born; and "Spotted Leopard" said "he'd be hanged if he wouldn't go and destroy himself, if that old fool of a Manwaring didn't stop his nonsense and rubbishy questions."

Meanwhile-for the "Memorials of the Antient and Knightly Family of Manwaring of Holmcastle Manor, in the County Palatine of Lancaster," was in progress for years and years, and indeed was scarcely half finished at the author's death-the Squire's three children grew up apace. Though he had little or no fatherly sympathy with them, and probably looked on them rather as necessary evils, than as God-sent gifts entrusted to him to be loved and cherished above all other possessions, he was not what would be commonly called a bad father. The children were not grudged meat or drink, or dress, or even luxuries becoming their station-the "Honour of the Family" demanded that, but it is certain that, as they grew up, the Squire valued them chiefly as possible producers of more heirs male, or on account of their real or supposed likeness to their ancestors. Thus Lionel, the first-born, was supposed to resemble Sir Ralph Manwaring, Governor of Calais under Henry VII., of whom a fine portrait, by the elder Holbein, hung

over the mantelpiece in the dining-room; Evelyn was credited with a likeness to Mistress Blanche Manwaring, who was kissed by his Sacred Majesty, King Charles II., on the occasion of his visit to Holmcastle, and who rewarded that merry monarch with a sound slap on the royal chops; while Wilfred, who was a beautiful boy, with dark violet eyes, clustering dark hair, and nobly-cut forehead, and in whose form grace and strength were combined, as in that of a Ganymede cut by a Greek chisel, was esteemed the living image of Sir Godfrey, who had been deemed a great beauty at Court, and who had lost so many broad pieces to his royal master in the great gallery at Whitehall, that he was forced to sell many of the fair acres which the roundheads had left to the family, when they spoiled gallant old Sir Walter for his attachment to King Charles the First.

It had been the custom of the Family to educate the children well, and in accordance with that precedent, no expense was spared by Mr. Manwaring in the education of his daughter and his two sons. Lionel went to Eton, where most of his ancestors, for three hundred years, had been before him; and thence, after a brilliant career at the Academy at Woolwich, he passed into the army,

and speedily gained a reputation as a young officer of the highest promise.

Evelyn, the pet of her elder, and the constant companion of her younger brother, as she grew towards maturity, had as many masters over from Preston, and even from Manchester and Liverpool, as her father thought becoming to her station. Her bright intelligence and natural aptitude for learning made her profit to the uttermost by the instruction she received; while her religious education was lovingly and carefully superintended by the Rector, whose merry, beaming daughter, Mary, was her playmate in childhood, and her dearest friend as she grew older. Left motherless at the birth of her younger brother, Evelyn's character, as she grew up to maturity, developed more quickly than is usual with girls, and ere she was sixteen, she had fallen almost imperceptibly into the position of mistress of her father's house. By her brothers, by the Rectory family, and by the few neighbours with whom she was acquainted; by the dalesmen, and especially by the poor around her, Evelyn was perfectly adored, and the charm and beauty of "the Lily of Arrow Dale"-for she early acquired that pretty soubriquet-was celebrated far and near. If ever the cold nature of the Squire could be said

to warm towards anyone, it was towards his daughter; but he did not condescend to show the affection, such as it was, which he may have felt for her, by any outward signs or demonstrations. In his view, all love, all devotion, all honour was due to himself as Head of the Family, and to himself alone.

YOYILFRED, the youngest of the Holmcastle Family, after following his brother to Eton, where, however, he did not remain long, was sent, in order to prepare for Oxford, to a private tutor, named Massenger, who lived in a house to which he had given the pedantic name of "Ehrenbreitstein," at Fisherswick, near Ossington, on the borders of Cheshire.

Marmaduke Massenger, although of English parentage, had begun his education at the University of Glasgow, but before he took his degree he removed to Bonn, and afterwards to Heidelberg, where, in due time, he became Doctor of Philosophy. Returning to England, in the full pomp of his new