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LONDON:

C. W. BRADLEY, PRINTER,

3, RUSSELL-COURT, BRYDGES-STREET,

STRAND, W.c.

"What God hath Joined Together let no Man put Asunder'

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THE CHURCHMAN'S FAMILY MAGAZINE.

ISABELLA VAUCLERC.

BY MRS. GEORGE HALY, AUTHOR OF "BLANCHE OF MONTACUTE," &c., &c.

PLAN.; Let him who is a true-born gentleman,

And stands upon the honour of his birth,

If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,

From off this brier pluck a white rose with me."
SOM.: "Let him who is no coward and no flatterer
But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.”

SHAKESPEARE.

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CHAPTER I.

ENTLY, gently, fair lady! methinks that leap might daunt a stouter heart, I prithee stop," cried her companion, a handsome youth, apparently but a few years older than herself, to Isabella Vauclerc, as the two equestrians approached some broken ground at a hand gallop.

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But the young lady thus addressed, looking archly at the knight, and indulging in a peculiarly musical laugh, gently switched her small fiery palfrey, and, bounding over the impediment, scoured at full speed over the plain, and it was not until the ascent of a steep hill required her to breathe her steed, that she drew her rein.

Then, turning with another laugh, and an air of triumph to her admirer, she said, "Thanks for your good advice, beau sire de Rochfort, but you'll find it but waste of time and trouble, I fear, to tame the wild girl of Arrow.'"

"I have not that yet to learn, Isabel," replied the cavalier thus addressed, with an air of pique; for even the quick riding had failed to disperse from Godfrey de Rochfort's brow the cloud that

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