inheritance he was giving up, he led the officers right away to the hoards they were seeking. 1 His conduct on this occasion Denis has already referred to where he says: "There were matters connected with this story regarding which I could not speak.... Now they are secrets no more. That old society of smugglers is dissolved long ago: nay, I shall have to tell presently how I helped myself to break it up." And therewith all old Duval's earnings, all Denis's fortune that was to be, vanished; but of course Denis prospered in his profession, and had no need of unlawful gains.* But very sad times intervened between Denis and prosperity. He was to be taken prisoner by the French, and to fret many long years away in one of their arsenals. At last the Revolution broke out, and he may have been given up, or—thanks to his foreign tongue and extraction-found means to escape. Perhaps he went in search of Agnes, whom we know he never forgot, and whose great relations were now in trouble; for the Revolution which freed him was terrible to "aristocrats." This is nearly all the record we have of this part of Denis's life, and of the life which Agnes led while she was away from him. But perhaps it was at this time that Duval saw Marie Antoinette; † perhaps he found Agnes, and helped to get her away or had Agnes already escaped to England, and was it in the old familiar haunts Farmer Perreau's Columbarium, where the pigeons were that Agnes loved; the Rectory garden basking in the autumn evening; the old wall and the pear-tree behind it; the plain from whence they could see the French lights across the Channel; the little twinkling window in a gable of the Priory-house, where the light used to be popped out at nine o'clock-that Denis and Agnes first met after their long separation? *Notices of Sussex smuggling (says the note-book) are to be found in vol. x. of Sussex Archeological Collections, 69, 94. Reference is also made to the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. viii. pp. 292, 172. The following memoranda appear in the note-book : "Marie Antoinette was born on the 2nd November, 1755, and her saint's day is the FÊTE DES MORTS. "In the Corsican expedition the Légion de Lorraine was under the Baron de Viomesnil. He emigrated at the commencement of the Revolution, took an active part in the army of Condé, and in the emigration returned with Louis XVIII., followed him to Gand, and was made marshal and peer of France after '15. "Another Vi. went with Rochambeau to America in 1780." However that may have been, we come presently upon a note of "a tailor contracts to supply three superfine suits for £11:11S. (Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser)"; and also of a villa at Beckenham, with "four parlours, eight bed-rooms, stables, two acres of garden, and fourteen acres of meadow, let for £70 a year," which may have been the house the young people first lived in after they were married. Later, they moved to Fareport, where, as we read, the admiral is weighed along with his own pig, But he cannot have given up the service for many years after his marriage, for he writes: "T'other day when we took over the King of France to Calais (H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence being in command), I must needs have a post-chaise from Dover to look at that old window in the Priory-house at Winchelsea. I went through the old wars, despairs, tragedies. I sighed as vehemently after forty years as though the infandi dolores were fresh upon me, as though I were the schoolboy trudging back to his task, and taking a last look at his dearest joy.” "And who, pray, was Agnes?" he writes elsewhere. "To-day her name is Agnes Duval, and she sits at her worktable hard by. The lot of my life has been changed by knowing her to win such a prize in life's lottery has been given but to very few. What I have done of any worthhas been done by trying to deserve her."... "Monsieur mon fils," (this is to his boy)" if ever you marry, and have a son, I hope the little chap will have an honest man for a grandfather, and that you will be able to say, "I loved him,' when the daisies cover me." Once more' of Agnes he writes: "When my ink is run out, and my little tale is written, and yonder church that is ringing to seven-o'clock prayers shall toll for a certain D. D., you will please, good neighbours, to remember that I never loved any but yonder lady, and keep a place by Darby for Joan when her turn shall arrive." (( DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. MR. HORACE MILLIKEN, a Widower, a wealthy City Merchant. CAPTAIN TOUCHIT, his Friend. CLARENCE KICKLEBURY, brother to Milliken's late Wife. JOHN HOWELL, M.'s Butler and confidential Servant. CHARLES PAGE, Foot-boy. BULKELEY, Lady Kicklebury's Servant. MR. BONNINGTON. Coachman, Cabman; a Bluecoat Boy, another Boy (Mrs. Prior's Sons). LADY KICKLEBURY, Mother-in-law to Milliken. MRS. BONNINGTON, Milliken's Mother (married again). MRS. PRIOR. MISS PRIOR, her Daughter, Governess to Milliken's Children. MARY BARLOW, School-room Maid. A grown-up Girl and Child of Mrs. Prior's, Lady K's Maid, Cook. THE WOLVES AND THE LAM B. ACT I. The SCENE MILLIKEN's villa at Richmond; two drawing-rooms opening into one another. The late MRS. MILLIKEN'S portrait over the mantelpiece; book-cases, writing-tables, piano, newspapers, a handsomely furnished saloon. back-room opens, with very large windows, on the lawn and pleasure-ground; gate and wall-over which the heads of a cab and a carriage are seen, as persons arrive. Fruit, and a ladder on the walls. A door to the diningroom, another to the sleeping-apartments, etc. JOHN.-Everybody out; governor in the city; governess (heigh-ho!) walking in the Park with the children; ladyship gone out in the carriage. Let's sit down and have a look at the papers. Buttons! fetch the Morning Post out of Lady Kicklebury's room. Where's the Daily News, sir? PAGE. Think it's in Milliken's room. JOHN.-Milliken! you scoundrel! What do you mean by Milliken? Speak of your employer as your governor if you like; but not as simple Milliken. Confound your impudence! you'll be calling me Howell next. PAGE.-Well! I didn't know. JOHN.-Because I know him, You call him Milliken. because I'm intimate with |