Jam te premet nox, fabulaeque Manes,
Et domus exilis Plutonis.-HORACE.
["This very hour Death shall overcome thee, and the fabled Manes,
and the shadowy Plutonian realms receive thee."]
The morning was dull and heavy as Lord Ulswater mounted his horse, and unattended took his way towards Westborough Park. His manner was unusually though