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The family vault the family vault. It will certainly be j ^ our j- fault, To bury j j^ I life long woe ! (Exit LADY SANGAZURE, in great anguish, L.) RECITATIVE MR. "WELLS. Oh, hideous doom to scatter desolation, And sow the seeds of sorrow far and wide I To foster mesalliances through the nation, And drive high born old dames to suicide I Shall I subject myself to reprobation, By leaving her in solitude to pine ? No 1 come what may, I'll make her reparation, So, aged lady, take me I I am thine I (Exit MR. WELLS, L.) Enter ALINE. LINE. This was to have been the happiest day of my life but I am very far from happy I Alexis insists that I shall taste the philtre and when I try to persuade him that to do so would be an insult to my pure and lasting love, ho tells me that I object because I do not desire that my love for him shall be eternal. Well (sighing, and producing a phial), I can at least prove to him that, in that, he is unjust ! EECITATIVE. Alexis 1 Doubt me not, my loved one 1 See Thine uttered will is sovereign law to me 1 All fear all thought of ill I cast away ; It is my darling's will, and I obey 1 (She drinks the philtre.) The fearful deed is done, My love is near ! I go to meet my own In trembling fear 1 If o'er us aught of ill Should cast a shade, Tt was my darling's will, And I obeyed ! As ALINE is going off, she meets DR. DALY, entering pensively. He is play- ing on a flageolet. Under the influence of the spell she at once becomes strangely fascinated by him, and exhibits every symptom, of being hope-

lessly in love with him.