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quietly home, and sent a note to his chaplain, with whom 
shortly afterwards he had a two hours’ interview. We 
have always thought that he made then a first and full 
confession. He was from that time, at all events, an 
altered man. He sent not only his pardon to his daughter, 
but a fatherly invitation to her old home ; and she came 
with her husband, and wich gladness for all our hearts.” 
This reconciliation, the first fruit of that victory which 
he had won over self, soon brought its great reward,partly 
in the fact that the handsome guardsman succeeded ^gainst 
all expectation to the headship of his house a peerage, 
with large estates—but chiefly in his daughter’s grateful 
love. 
We will leave him, if you please, as I once saw him,and 
as ever since I have liked best to think of him, plucking an 
orange for his grandchild, little Alice, from the very tree 
whereupon grew the leaf. Rev. S. R. Hole. 
