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A. Life For A Life. By The Author Of " J...
follows immediately upon an avowal of the attachment between Max and Theodora , but before it is confessed to the father . The
avowal has been brought about by the pressure of circumstances , under which it is a wonder Dr . IJrquhart did not yield sooner ,
but the doubt suggested by the similarity of the names , has become a ceaseless dread and presence . He learns too , from Theodora ,
that there was a brother in the family who died very early and suddenlyand whose name has long been banished from their lips .
Forth , then lie goes in quest of that lone grave , to find , as he had dreadedtliat Theodora ' s lost brother , and the man whose
, death he had himself caused upon Salisbury Plain , are one ; and here we will let Max Urquhart speak for himself : —
ston " On for February the first time 7 th , 185 after 7 , she I went was to aware _Rockmount that I had , to see lon Theodora taken John the - life drunken of her ra half ge . -brother I came , simp Henry ly to Johns look t on t , her not dear intentionall face , once y g , but more , in , and a fit t of o
o f mine her in what fore I way took her the father second would step best of surrender bear the ing shock myse of lf this to j confession ustice , or _, of making , atonement in any life other way d that and Mr left . Johnston them to might choose of it .
of To me him in and any his manner family they my thoug was ht best owe . , I dispose or With these intentions I went to Theodora . I knew her well . I felt sure
" she she eternal would would separation not pity jud me ge ; ; that that me , the thoug she less woul h justl the d not blood y , or refuse merci upon me full my her y hands , or forg Christianl ivene was half ss b y her . fore As own our _ta , to herhad before in
o f Christian conscience woman also I as came to the woman , as who I had come been once friendwith a question all the ri dearer ghts and And honors ; I was of , thankful that name that , before the she lesser became tie had to my me been _anything included , more in and the
greater " I . found , and not that onl both need friend not be entirel whom y swept above away all and others disannulled I could . dey my , upon , ,
who pend , loving but my me own before , my this love , blow , the fell woman , clung above to me all still women , and who believing was mine that ;
Grod , himself had joined us together , suffered nothing to put us asunder . How she made me comprehend at last this knelt I b shall her not and relate kissed , as her it blessed concerns hands
ourselves alone . "When , , I y , that my saint the All ! and -Merciful yet all had woman had and all my own me , I felt that that while my ' sin all was these covered , mercy upon ; years
I had followed miserably my own method of atonement , _deny , ing myself all , life ' s joys ,, and cloaking suddenl myself led with every banother possible rag of righteousness this child I
love could first find to , He comfort had and then y to me smite y me , that way , being , sending utterly bruised ' s , broken Now , and for humbled the first , time I might I felt be made like a whole man . to whom there is a possibility
lay of " being hold , made on me whole ; tlie . ' fair Her , reputation father might under hunt whi me ch to I death had ; shielded the law myself might might safeI was be myself torn and the scattered true Max to Urquhart the winds a grievous ; but for sinner all yet that no longer I was
unforg , iven or hopeless , . , , " " That * I came line not struc to k call home to the . mine rig Oh hteous ! , that , but I could sinners She carry said to it repentance home when to every . ' listened miser in
wonder able heart to the as it clearness went of some of * her * arguments * , that , she I hardly knew how they had come into her mind ; they seemed to come of themselves ; but
they added were innocentl there , a that , nd she if the was Chris sure t they of Nazareth were true were . She to pass was by sure Bock , she - , y ,
