Before Thy presence flee". Hearing her one day as they stood together at the window in the picture gallery, Ann said to her brother: Hearing her one day as they stood together at the window in the picture gallery, Ann said to her brother: "If only she does not persuade our father to change his mind again!" "If only she does not persuade our father to change his mind again!" "She will not do that; my father's mind is fixed for once," answered Reginald. "He said only the other day, 'The great Lord Protector is dead; there is none to take his place; we can but trust the future to God. It were foolish for me to set my face against the new order of things. I should neither make nor mend, and I should probably lose all I have gained--my lands and my money'." "She will not do that; my father's mind is fixed for once," answered Reginald. "He said only the other day, 'The great Lord Protector is dead; there is none to take his place; we can but trust the future to God. It were foolish for me to set my face against the new order of things. I should neither make nor mend, and I should probably lose all I have gained--my lands and my money'." Ann bent her head. "Yes, that holds him," she said. "He loves this place; he would not part with it on any consideration." Ann bent her head. "Yes, that holds him," she said. "He loves this place; he would not part with it on any consideration." "But suppose the rightful heir should turn up?" said Reginald. "But suppose the rightful heir should turn up?" said Reginald. "There is no rightful heir," answered Ann; "the last man died at Worcester, childless." "There is no rightful heir," answered Ann; "the last man died at Worcester, childless." "Was he married?" asked Reginald. "Was he married?" asked Reginald. "Oh, yes!" said Ann; "there is an old woman down the village who knew him, and saw his young bride when he brought her home to this very house, a lovely girl, she said, too tender to weather the storms of these rough times; so when her husband died, she,
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