Sir Robert Cottrell still lives; and still continues to make grand conquests at the cheapest possible price.
And alive, too, are Messrs Lucas and Spiller, both returned to America from their European tour, and both yet bachelors.
The former may be seen any day sauntering along the streets of New York, and frequently flitting around that Fifth Avenue House, where dwells the disconsolate Julia.
Notwithstanding repeated repulses, he has not lost hope of consoling her, by effecting a change in her name!
His shadow, Spiller, is not so much seen along with him—at least upon the flags of the Fifth Avenue.
Cornelia Inskip, the star that should have attracted him thither, is no longer there. The daughter of the Poughkeepsie retailer has long since changed, not only her name, but place of abode. She can be found in the capital of Austria, by any one inquiring for the Countess von Roseveldt.
More fortunate than her ambitious cousin, who sought a title without finding it, Cornelia found one without seeking it!
It seems like dealing out dramatic justice, but the story is true. Not much of a tragedy, since we have but one death to record. That, too, expected, though painful.
Sir George Vernon died; but not till after having seen his daughter married to the man of her choice, and given his blessing both to the Child Wife and her chosen husband.
It has long made them happy in their English home; and, now, in a far foreign land—the land where they first saw one another—that blessing still clings to them.