“The morning after we left Mobile, Devenant met me as I came from my state-room and embraced me for the first time.  I loved him, but it was only that affection which we have for one who has done us a lasting favour:  it was the love of gratitude rather than that of the heart.  We were five weeks on the sea, and yet the passage did not seem long, for Devenant was so kind.  On our arrival at Havre, we were married and came to Dunkirk, and I have resided here ever since.”

At the close of this narrative, the clock struck ten, when the old man, who was accustomed to retire at an early hour, rose to take leave, saying at the same time, “I hope you will remain with us to-night.”  Mr. Green would fain have excused himself, on the ground that they would expect him and wait at the hotel, but a look from the lady told him to accept the invitation.  The old man was the father of Mrs. Devenant’s deceased husband, as you will no doubt long since have supposed.  A fortnight from the day on which they met in the grave-yard, Mr. Green and Mrs. Devenant were joined in holy wedlock; so that George and Mary, who had loved each other so ardently in their younger days, were now husband and wife.  Without becoming responsible for the truthfulness of the above narrative, I give it to you, reader, as it was told to me in January last, in France, by George Green himself.

A celebrated writer has justly said of woman:  “A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.  The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures.  She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—­for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”

Mary had every reason to believe that she would never see George again; and although she confesses that the love she bore him was never transferred to her first husband, we can scarcely find fault with her for marrying Mr. Devenant.  But the adherence of George Green to the resolution never to marry, unless to his Mary, is, indeed, a rare instance of the fidelity of man in the matter of love.  We can but blush for our country’s shame, when we recall to mind the fact, that while George and Mary Green, and numbers of other fugitives from American slavery, can receive protection from any of the Governments of Europe, they cannot return to their native land without becoming slaves.

FINIS.

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Page 8, eleventh line from bottom, for villages read villas
The beautiful villages [**Erratum:  villas] on the opposite side of the

145, fourth line from top, for Dante read Whittier our own Dante? [**Erratum:  Whittier?]

205, second line from bottom, for towns read lawns in the vicinity of the lakes.  Magnificent towns [**Erratum:  lawns]