. She 
never complained ; there was no outward failing of health, but 
there was a nameless something hovering round her, which 
even her doting parents could not define, but which they felt 
too forcibly to shake off; and notwithstanding every effort to 
expel the idea, that nameless something brought with it wordnetfear 
 wordnetfear defined indeed too clearly ; but of which even to each 
other they could not speak. 

Time passed, and Herbert Hamilton, as the period of his 
ordination was rapidly approaching, lost many of those - 
fully wordnetfear  which for the last three years had so 
constantly and painfully assailed him. He felt stronger in 
health than he had ever remembered to have done, and the 
 of , and , and , breathing in the let- 
ters of his Mary, affected him with the same unalloyed  
of anticipated  ;  of holiness, of chastened 
thanksgiving, pervaded his every thought, the inward struggle 
appeared passed. There was a calm upon his young , so 
soothing and so blessed, that the future rose before him unsul- 
lied by a cloud ;  was so bright, it seemed a fore- 
 of that glorious heaven, the goal to which he and his 
Marj' looked  the home they sought together. 

Percy had also obtained honorable distinction at Oxford ; 
his active  would not have permitted him to remain quiet 
in