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4¥> MACAKTHUR*? m TO AUSTRALIA. exiitiibiatioii at onco explains to me what will be yruii* feelings wlii^n the 4ouhts, fears, and inetntHiide, to whii^h you hiive been ao long exix>sec.l, are removed." In another letter lie prepared hiw wife to see him changed, hy saying that his tempest-shattered bark woald need repose." When he retnrned from exile, two natives entered his house while the family were at dinner. Sir William Matiarthur, who was present, informed the author of the occurrence, in words whose natural eloquence it would be vain to polish and wrong to condense.

    • Wino wa« put before tliem. Harry's friend lK)Wed to iiiy father and

drank the wine. Barry, after a pauses rose fioni hia chair^ and said, • We have mouniet! for you as a fat her ^ and I have not word a to say liow niufh we rejoice in your return. Many are gone M'ho wonld have rejoiced as mineh as I do, because we have always found a home and food and ahtlter with you. Those troubles which drove yon away I hop© will never come again, Now you are come back I hope you will ncTi-er go liway again, but live in peace, ami at hist leave your bones among us.*

    • I reraemlifir think'mg {Sir William rtdded) tlutl I had never seen

manner iiiore graceful^ or hearcl expressions better turned than Harry's. Some strangers w-lio were present w^ere nnich astordsheil at liis eloquence, mid 1 regret that 1 oanaut more aucunitely reniember hiw words." Long may the tnrf lie li<^ht over the ^rave at Camden Park, where the restleHS Macarthur at hiHt left his bones among the diminished remnant nf the race w^hose love he bad won.