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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... a separation between the pair once so indifferent, Lord Valentine would not have been the triumphantly proud and happy bridegroom that he appeared on his marriage-day as he led his lovely wife down the flower-strewn path to the carriage. "De deux amants il y a toujours un qui baise et un qui tend la joue," says the old French proverb. But if Lord Valentine is the one who kisses, it is certain that Lady Valentine holds her cheek to him in the most obliging manner. Perhaps it is early days to make a prediction yet, but I feel quite sure that they will be " happy ever after." CHAPTER XXXVI. EVERY ONE IS HAPPY. I HAVE come to my last chapter: I am going to bid farewell to my heroine. There is to be no denouement. Her husband does not get killed out hunting or otherwise in order to allow Jack to come home and marry her. It is considered the proper thing, I know, to wind up a novel with a tragedy or a comedy, but in real life we go on living our life after the great event of it has happened. Some of us never have any great event at all to chronicle. For the last year and a half, Colonel and Mrs. Dorian have been living in the country. George has sold out of the Guards, and finds plenty of occupation in hunting, shooting, doing a little farming, and interesting himself generally in his belongings. The life suits Rhona too: she has a model dairy and a poultry-yard, she rides and drives, she is devoted to animals, and has plenty of pets. Her tender heart, which has still always sympathy to give away, finds happiness in doing good and in relieving the wants of the poor in her neighborhood. No doubt country life is a healthy one, morally as well as physically, and, when it is allowed to do so, brings rieh and poor together and gives each a kinder feeling towards the o...