"A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!"--POPE. In an upper chamber, through the closed blinds of which the sun is vainly striving to enter, Reginald Branscombe, fifth Earl of Sartoris, lies dead. The sheet is reverently drawn across the motionless limbs; the once restless, now quiet, face is hidden; all around is wrapt in solemn unutterable silence,--the silence that belongs to death alone!…
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