It is over, the bells "gush out in merry tune," the rustics make the welkin ring with their shouts, and the noble couple retrace their steps to the Manor House, the bride leaning upon the bridegroom's arm.
"O, ter felices ambo!"
There we leave you, possessed of all the happiness that earth has to bestow.
EPILOGUE
In Chelsea old parish church there may be seen an altar-tomb of such marked beauty that Dean Stanley once declared that Westminster Abbey contained only three finer. It is dedicated to the memory of Geoffrey, Lord Dacre and his wife.
On the west side is the following inscription—
"Quos ardens amor juvenilibus annis
Abstulit atra dies—mors inopina rapit.
Ille prior fatis Dacrorum nobile germen