The young creature had suffered too much in mind and body to permit her naturally-delicate frame ever to revive to health: she had suffered from alternations of heat and cold, from damp, fatigue, and prolonged abstinence. Inflammation, like a flaming and barbed arrow had pierced her chest, she spoke and breathed with difficulty: anxiety for her beloved uncle, and the earnest desire of obtaining liberty and life for him, still hung upon her heart. Nay, it was an absorbing feeling which excluded all thoughts of self-and it may be added, that the high and heavenly thoughts and views of Divine love, as brought to bear on herself, which had been vouchsafed her in the lone, and often darksome wanderings in the mountain, were such as no one can enjoy, and yet survive to live and act amid merely created objects.

In consequence of all these things, Eugenie waited and watched in vain for the recovery of her fostersister the very cordials which she ordered to be administered, only increased the internal fire, and caused delirium to ensue in place of faintness. Much for a time also was she perplexed by the references which Ernestine made in this delirium to the case of her uncle, nor could she comprehend till explained by a servant who was in attendance, who this poor beloved uncle could be, for whom her foster-sister entreated her to mediate with her father, that he would use his powerful interest to set him at liberty.

The servant had heard the history of Le Pere Robichon's offence against the Papal Church, of his examination by the authorities, and his committal for farther examination to the stronghold of the neighbouring town, but she could not have told her, what she now knew from circumstances, that he was the uncle of Er

nestine. Eugenie immediately promised her adopted sister to do all she could with her father which could be done for this dear uncle, and this assurance was perhaps the last idea, referring to present things, which the mind of Ernestine was capable of taking in, and even this idea this promise of liberty of deliverance to her much-loved uncle, as her disease gained ground, seemed to take a new colouring and form, and instead of keep ing to that which was personal and present, to assume a higher and more glorious form, an assurance of the spiritual and complete deliverance of the kind old man from all the bonds of darkness and prejudice, and his full admittance into that life which is liberty for ever. And it was not of such liberty, such light and such life for her uncle only, that she spoke, but of the same for her own beloved Eugenie, whom she reminded continually of the holy lessons they had learned together in infancy. Nor was there one sentence which she uttered, which did not sink into the heart of her foster-sister, there forming an impression which never was or never could be effaced.

A few, a very few days only, brought the blessed Ernestine to the termination of all suffering, and so suddenly did this take place, that the Comte at the entreaty of Eugenie, had only just obtained the consent of the authorities to set Father Robichon at liberty, on condition that he was to leave the country and never be seen there more.

The messenger who carried the commands of the authorities to open the gates to the old priest, brought him the account of the death of his niece at the chateau, with some detail of the means by which this death was incurred, telling him how, with her last breath she had blessed him and her foster-sister, and spoken of them

both with sweet assurances of glory in the Saviour who had shed his blood for them on the cross, and how that her last words were these-The cross, the cross, I leave behind, now am I ready to be set as a jewel in His crown.'

When the venerable man had heard the message, he joined his hands and raised his eyes, 'Then,' he said, ‘is the deliverance complete, the last tie which bound me to my native valleys is broken. Farewell, then, sweet vallies-farewell, my beautiful fatherland: yet this and all that it contains shall be the subjects of my prayers, till faith and hope become extinct in the full fruition of the perfect work of love.'

It was about an hour after the glorious deliverance of Ernestine from all the pressure of earthly sorrow, that Eugenie stood weeping, and praying, and clasping the bible given her by her lamented foster-sister on the high and open balcony of the turret, with no other companion but Rocco, who had followed her thither, and who looked up to her with watery eyes, some might have called them weeping, seeming fully to understand that his former mistress needed his services no more. He was pressing his body against her side as she sate upon the pediment of the balustrade, and her hand laid upon his neck, when a sudden motion of the faithful creature drew her attention, and she saw him eagerly looking through the wooden railing.

She marked the direction of his eye, it was towards the gate of the town at the distance only of some hundred yards, and there at that very moment, she saw an aged form clad in priest's robes, come forth leaning on a staff. He had taken off his cap in compliment to the functionaries who had seen him to the gate, and Eugenie fancied she could discern the influence of the wind on his snow-white hair.

When the gate was shut behind him, she saw him look up to the chateau, and after a moment wipe his eyes as if they had filled with tears. She next observed him taking a path which led down to the bank of the gently flowing Tet, setting his face towards the east. She now only perceived the back of his figure which, had she known him a few weeks before, she would have seen to be greatly broken down in the interval, and she was thinking, Oh that I could recal him, the uncle of my lost and beloved one, or at least give him one word of comfort, but he has a friend on high, why should I be anxious for him?

From the moment in which she had first seen the old man, she had not thought of Rocco, and still believed him at her side, when she saw him leaping the parapet of the green platform under the turret, and bounding over all impediments till he had reached the side of the aged Father. Eugenie saw the old man bend to caress him, and the next instant as the two passed together they were hidden from her sight by an undulation of the bank.

Eugenie never could learn any tidings of the wanderers from that moment, and never was able to make her bounties reach to the expatriated Pastor; and yet so blessed was the intercourse which she had with Ernestine and her family, and so bright the views of divine and redeeming love administered through them and the bible bequeathed to her by her foster-sister, that she never doubted the care of Divine Providence for the aged wanderer, nor ever was permitted to fall again under the influence of that church, the offence of which consists in setting up its own traditions and decrees in opposition to the simple declarations and doctrines of Holy Writ.

JEWISH PROSPECTS.

(Concluded from our last.)

We rejoice greatly to find that the important matter which we transcribed into our pages last month from the “Voice of Jacob," under this head, has attracted much attention, and excited no small degree of interest among our readers. This is as it ought to be; female hands are fully competent to enter into the details of what, when it pleases God to bring about its accomplishment, will be the fulfilment of many a prayerful longing of female hearts. What we have further to lay before our friends may be called dry statistics' by some; but their investigation is of great importance; for we cannot be too well furnished with proofs of the plain practicability of what is too generally regarded as a chimerical idea; founded on a speculative interpretation of certain obscure prophecies. We fear that not a few among the people of Israel themselves hold this notion, simply for lack of calm inquiry into the matter. They all expect that their nation will one day be restored, and re-established in the land of promise; but though throughout the formularies of their synagogue-service they are taught continually to pray for their own restoration to their land, and that their own eyes may see the Lord's return to Zion in glory, it is astonishing how few among them appear actually to expect the fulfilment even of the first part of this supplication. The