A shadow had fallen upon her brow; a gloom upon her young and happy life.
And where was he who unconsciously, though not perhaps unintentionally, had been the cause of the cloud which had arisen, and whence that shadow, that gloom? Where was Jasper St. Aubyn?
PART II.
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CHAPTER I.
A change came o’er the spirit of my dream.
The lady of his love was wed with one
Who did not love her better.
Byron.
Two years had passed away since Durzil Bras-de-fer set sail on the Virginia voyage, and from that day no tidings had been heard of him in England.