ETHEL CHURCHILL.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
A FRIEND AT COURT.
I did not know till she was lost,
How much she was beloved;
She knows it in that better world,
To which she is removed.
I feel as she had only sought
Again her native skies;
I look upon the heavens, and seem
To meet her angel eyes.
Pity, and love, and gentle thoughts,
For her sake, fill my mind:
They are the only part of her
That now is left behind.
The disappointed petitioners stood, for a few moments, on the terrace while waiting for their carriage: they stood in complete silence; Ethel the most vexed, Lady Marchmont the most surprised. Henrietta felt like a dethroned
