Ashcombe churchyard Author:Evelyn Benson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXV. A THUNDERBOLT. " Weg ist alles was du liebtest, Weg warum du dich betriibtest, Weg dein Fleiss und deine Euh." Goethe. " Tu non inventa... more » reperta Luctus eras levior." Ovid. Mr. Warner, immediately after having consigned his treasure to the arms of her new protector, set out on his return home. Before his departure, he sent a notice of the marriage to the London papers. On many a table, in many a reading-room, were those papers thrown, and many an eye ran lightly over that announcement, which brought no definite idea to the mind of the general reader beyond the fact that it formed an assemblage of names. But there was one person in the city of London on whom the impression was different. In a quiet reading-room, in a quiet part of the town, sat three gentlemen, engaged with the morning papers. It was a dull, dark place enough, not like the brilliant saloons that are now thrown open to the public, and there was no noise in the house, and very little in the street. One of the three gentlemen looking over the news was Dr. Campbell. Yes: he was now a doctor; he had passed all his examinations creditably;he was a surgeon and a physician both. He was twenty- four years of age, and had lately returned from a tour in Holland, Germany, and France, and was in short fully accomplished, and ready to begin to practise, but was quite unsettled as to his plans. He seldom read deaths and marriages, but now, as his eye wandered down the column, it caught the name of Amelia, and the next instant he was in possession of the whole. Then that quiet room rang with a cry such as, we may safely aver, ignorant though we be of the history of any of its successive inhabitants, its walls never echoed before. " Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens !" sighs the great Hebrew p...« less