should cause him to be placed immediately into a hydrostatic bed. celebrated on this occasion by the Hon. and Rev. Herbert Courtenay, was ordered according to That fearful sinking in the socket which Fred- the rite of that portion of the Catholic Church erick predicted too surely, took place. The to which the duke, as a North Briton, necessa physicians shrugged their shoulders at the means rily belonged. On this occasion, for the first proposed by Lady Alice in obedience to her time, also, the celebrant and assistants-the latlover's directions; and it required all her deter- ter the duke's six chaplains-were arrayed in mined spirit to overpower the fears of Lord the vestments appointed by the law of the Beauchamp and Louise, who, without entertain- Church-in chasuble and copes of white silk ing more than the faintest hope of their brother's and gold, in albes of lace, like bridal vails, and recovery, looked upon this procedure as involv- richly-broidered stoles. The sanctuary was ing an abandonment of all the energetic means of safety. For a week, Clifford lay between life and death: the glassy eye, over which the fatal film had already gathered-the profound torpor of every sensitive function-announced that the vital power, driven to its last retreats, was contending, inch by inch, with the decomposing force that resides in the blind affinities of inorganic nature. The physicians intimated that it was useless to oppose the wishes of Lady Alice, since the case was clearly beyond the reach of medical art. At length, the eye became once more transparent and luminous; the soul rushed back, as with a sudden triumph, to that countenance which had worn for many days the inexpressive pallor and calmness of death. Chained still by the most absolute muscular weakness, and inarticulate, Clifford recognized Alice, nevertheless, by the faintest smile. Somewhere about the middle of the Holy Week, his convalescence was an established fact. The ball was successfully extracted from the wound of Lord Wessex, and he was pronounced by the surgeon-with good treatment, and accidents excepted-a certain cure; free, at all events, from immediate danger. But, the same night, he tore off his bandages. He was already dying when this was discovered. He desired that Lord Stratherne might not lay his death to heart; as, if the young earl's shot had failed, he had been prepared to put an end to his own life in another way. The true history of this affair was communicated by Lord Beauchamp to the Cardinal Secretary of State; and, after some consideration, the Roman government resolved to take no other notice of it than by requiring Lord Stratherne to quit the Pontifical States immediately. As for Father Matteo, it is alone worthy of notice that Lady Alice continued, until she quitted Rome, to avail herself of his spiritual guidance. He said that she was a sincere Catholic in all respects, saving a prejudice as to the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church, which, in her case, he believed, was really invincible, and, by a special grace of the Virgin, interfered with neither faith nor charity. CHAPTER XI. Ir was on a brilliant morning of the auspicious month of June, that the chapel of Lennox House was filled with the élite of Britain, assembled to witness the double marriage of Alice Stuart and Grace Clifford. By one of those peculiar privileges of the chapels of this princely house, of which we have already had occasion to speak, the nuptial mass (as in the language of rituals it should be called), hung with tapestry and decorated with a profusion of flowers. Wax lights-twelve in number, perhaps to signify the apostles-burned in the golden candlesticks of that carved marble altar which has been already described. The credence glowed with the splendor of the sacred vessels. The cup was offered in a jeweled chalice of elaborate workmanship, presented by Alice as a bridal offering. On the same day she endowed a bishopric in a distant colony, and a church in a poor and populous district of this overgrown metropolis. Those who think that the rich and great ought to reserve their splendor for their own tables and retinue, and leave the table and the service of the Lord in poverty, we refer, for the patterns of all this, to an oldfashioned book called the Bible. The ceremony, in short, was such as has not been witnessed in England since the early and yet unspotted reign of the sixth Edward; it was such a service as Cranmer was wont to celebrate, which it would have gladdened the heart of Ridley to witness, and which exhibited the purified Church of England as she was in the beauty and love of her espousals, before an adulterous tampering with the foreign reformation had led her to prevaricate in her fidelity to the Eternal Bridegroom, and to hide under a bushel the hallowed light which once burned so clear on the altars of the Lord. The procession moves down the beautiful cloisters of the new house! We shall leave the bridesmaids and the dresses, the bishops, and the presence of royalty, to the Morning Post; but we may mention that the difference in the behavior of the two brides was much observed. Grace could never be otherwise than high-bred and self-possessed. Her mien might have been quoted as the ideal of patrician dignity softened by the timidity of the woman. All agreed that her manner was perfect. Alice was evidently absorbed in the religious solemnity. So profoundly hushed was the thronged chapel, so clear her own articulation at the moment of repeating the vows, that every syllable was distinctly audible, even to those who could barely gain the portal; and though it was in silence, and bowed within the silver gates of that sumptuous sanctuary, that she listened to the chanting of the nuptial psalm, from the commencement of the eucharistic cffice her voice blended with the burst of the response, adding its volumes of sweet sound to the harmonies of the Ter Sanctus, and surprising you into the belief of an angelic unison in the Gloria in Excelsis. This, and her air of rapt devotion, as if she had been a St. Cecilia, as was observed, were severely criticised. Yet, after all, when we consider the sufferings which had preceded her happiness, when we remember by what a scene in vention. her own history that chapel had been addition- step; it seems the bower of one who is a princess ally hallowed, we may perhaps pardon her for in the land. On a table of ivory, a branch canforgetting the surrounding crowd, and thinking dlestick of gold contains two ornate wax-lights more of her Maker and Preserver and His Heav--the nuptial tapers. As many slender vases, enly Court, than of measuring her inspired and of the same material as the branch, contain each holy passion of Love and religious gratitude by a lily and a rose. The chairs are all of ivory; what might approve itself to these slaves of con- but the chief object in the soft light and stillness of that bridal chamber is the ivory couch, classically formed, profusely carved, and half enveloped in clouds of lace. On the counterpane of the bed-white satin brilliantly embroidered in gold and colors-the work and gift of Clarinelle St. Liz-reposes the same memento of the divine sufferings that have purchased and sanctified all human bliss, which formerly protected the bed of the lonely Fitzalan. Let us transfer the scene to a spot which no such unmeet presence is permitted as yet to profane to the stately and picturesque courts of Bromswold, the bright gardens in which they are embowered, and the majestic sylvan solitudes surrounding all. "That I should live to see this day, Eccellenza! But I thought, when I saw the Signor Fitzalan enter our rooms that first morning, that our troubles were over." A door is open into an oratory, where are that same altar and its furniture, and the prayer-desk, and the very books of prayer, from her dear room in the Pontefice; and here shall now be sung once more, by their blended voices, the cheering psalms of the holy Compline. "And you knew the Signor Fitzalan, Luigi ?" "Did I know her ladyship? But what was I to do, your excellency Do I ever know what is in your mind, monsignore? If your signory took no notice, I supposed that your signory had A window, too, is open, and the curtain drawn. your reasons. Had I ever known your excel- 'Tis a midsummer night. The moon shines on lency's penetration at fault before in so many woods and lawns, graceful gardens and a gleamyears? Till I saw your excellency fallen on ing terrace, where a fountain throws into the the bed, and heard your delirium, I could not air its silver sheaf. And resting on the balcony persuade myself it was possible you had been is a form that catches the moonlight on its bridal deceived. Ah, what days were those! Giorni raiment, and glistens like the foamy sheaf of the benedetti !—But they are over, and your signory is happy at last." We have described Edith's nuptial eveninga license rarely taken by the moderns;-it can not be supposed that Alice's was less beautiful and solemn, in the house where she was at once a hostess and a bride. The chastened joy of her parents, the seriousness of her friends, the pious reverence of her brothers, the sympathy of sisters, found all a place. fountain. For the first time their tenderness—a mystery even to themselves-overflows all its banks; and yet at its simplest token the softer visage blushes, like the "sociable angel" interrogated by Adam on the ways of love in its supernal bowers. Henceforth, their guardian angels shall keep by day and night a social watch, and own a common charge. Types of the masculine energy that conquered truth, and of the winning love that always May we perhaps fitly describe a room where had possessed it!-If wisdom sprang armed from Clifford at one time found himself?- -a room pan- the head of self-governing Power, Beauty rose eled with lilac silk in pale gold moldings, and from the bosom of that impulsive and wave-like decorated with many fine works of art. Two nature whose law of freshening movement is a huge mirrors reflected the planet-like light of mysterious and celestial attraction. Areté and its silver cresset lamp. Two statues, less than Agapé ! They are both divine, but only in their life, adorned it :-the Flora of the Capitol; and union. Painful on earth are the trials by which the draped Antinous of the Lateran, the augustly that union is prepared and progressively accombeautiful head of which Alice had fancied to re- plished. There are who seek the beautiful alone, semble her lover's. 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