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India, he had formed the resolution of becoming an alien to his family; his affairs were so prosperous as to render it next to an impossibility that he should ever want any pecuniary assistance from them; and for the purpose of estranging himself, he never answered any of the letters he received from England-indeed, the reproaches with which those from his father and Rosetta were filled, and which he did not know how to defend, made him adhere more and more strictly to the plan he had marked out for himself. But at length remorse seized on his soul. The image of Jane haunted his nightly dreams and his waking thoughts; his behaviour to her and his aged father, now appeared to him in the most eulpable light; he becamo a sincere penitent, and resolved to return to England and make what reparation was in his power to those ho had so deeply wronged. About a fortnight after he had embarked on his homeward passage, as he was standing one evening on the deck, absorbed in his own reflections, a femalo figure glided by him, and pronouncod his namo in an awe-inspiring voice; he started and looked around; the figure stood at some distance from him. It was Jane! Again she repeated his name, and, with a heavy sigh, vanished from his view! The hour that this event occurred was explained; and Mr. Arnold had overy roason to suppose that it was the one in which the hapless fair one died, as it was on the same day in which she was found in lifeless corpse in her much loved grove.
The loss of his father's fortune did not in the least affect the youth; nor would he accept that part of it which Mr. Arnold, and the husband of Rosetta, generously offered him. No, money he valued not. The death of Jane, through his
