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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 hopie ; and she came 
With her husband, and with gladness for all our hearts.*’ 
Vhis reconciliation, the first fruit of that victory Which 
•hp had Won over self, soon brought its great reward,partly 
In the fact that the handsome' guardsman succeeded against 
all expectation to the headship of his house— a peerage* 
with large estates—but chiefly in his daughter’s grateful 
* love. 
We will leave hint, if you please, as 1 ouce saw hint,ana 
its ever since I have liked best to think of him, plucking an 
orange for his grandchild, little Alice, from the verf tret 
i \vhereupon grew, the leaf. Rev. S. R. Hole* 
