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THE SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE.

known. The Chesters are departing to Chesterton Castle, the Hopkinsons hurrying off to Seaview. The scene is changed, the actors dispersed, but with a pleasing certainty that between Chesterton, Seaview, and Chesford they will constantly meet again; but Pleasance is deserted, and once more there may be seen in the third column of the fourth page of the "Times" the old advertisement.

Dulham.—To be let, a Semi Detached House.

The book is completed
And closed like the day,
And the hand that has written it,
Lays it away.

Postscript. Unfortunately the hand that has laid it away, is obliged to take it up again. From the great importance of the events it contains, immediate publication was, of course, imperative, and the fate of one who played a great part in the history was left undecided; but we have just received the following Telegram.