Having discovered the attachment between Emma and William Nickson, Lady Haversham was the first to propose that they should be united; and, conscious that her days were numbered, pressed to have the nuptial ceremony performed with as little delay as possible. She outlived their marriage but a few weeks; but even during that brief period so many instances of the want of principle, gross selfishness, and inhumanity of her unworthy husband, were brought to light, that her remorse for having become his dupe was increased, and the poignancy of her feelings greatly accelerated the progress of her disease. The ruling passion, strong in death, was never more exemplified than in her last request to her weeping children :-"Let my funeral be in accordance with the rank which I paid so dearly to attain; and let there be a silver coronet on the coffin, which I wish to be covered with crimson velvet."

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