CHAPTER XVIII.

."So passeth in the passing of day,

 fmortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay"
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."So passeth in the passing of day,

 Of mortal life the laar the bud. the flower;

 No more doth flourish after first decay

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 Ir is time for me to draw these melancholy "reminiscences to a close. Perhaps, uncon- sciously to myself the spirit of egotism has dictated them; but if so, 1t Is not selIishness that by communication looks for direct sym pathy, for these sheets shall not see the light, until years after l have passed away. In glancing over them, it strikes me as only nec- essary to add few particulars.

 After my return from the continent, paid visit to the grave of her, who had been to me as the light of life, the lovely, the adored, the alas, epithets are vain---to the grave of Anna Singleton. Standing there my~spirit was ab- sorbed in the past, and when I came to con sciousness of my utter isolation, "l dropped few hot tears, but wiped them soon.o My grave will be made beside hers; for ] do not think that my spirit could find repose were my ashes any other where deposited.

 Bonnet never returned to his native country. He grew very rich, and got high up in the army; but he never married, a circumstance which gladdened the hearts of several cousins and second cousins in the shape of postobit remembrances.

 Shall divulge it? Why not? The living have passed away, and none remain to whom the disclosure can cost a thoughtful sigh.

 On the morning that left ny residence in England for the continent, packet was de- livered me. On breaking the outer seal, l found written inside the envelope ''The en- closed must not be perused for three years. A. X"

 Ii is needless to say, with what cire this letter was preserved, and how anxlously l awaited the coming round of the period at which was a, liberty to examine is contents. My anxiety was heightened instead of being diminished by hearing, what indeed grieved me to the core, but surprised me not much, that during the following winter Anne Austen had been translated to happier and better world,

 When the time did at length come round I was residing in Switzerland. Taking the precouslv preserved packet with me, went out on the beautiful morning of the fourteenth of June, an anniversary to me thence and tor ever sacred, and in the arbour at the foot oi