Crossword-Solution: INSCRIPT 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Twice the size of an ordinary visiting-card, the fashion of it was roughly thus: IL CARDLE UDESCHINI Sacr: Congr: Archiv: et Inscript: Praef: Palazzo Udeschini.

Took out the Gold, and blotting out The Priest's Inscript thereon, Wrote, "_Resurrexit, non est hic_": "Your God is rose and gone." AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE! Ah! the shepherd's mournful fate! When doom'd to love, and doom'd to languish, To bear the scornful fair one's hate, Nor dare disclose his anguish.

But when the envelope is laid open, and a photograph drawn out, showing the portrait of a young lady, recognised by all as a likeness of Helen Armstrong, there is a fresh outburst of exclamations which betoken increased surprise; this stronger still, after Spence reads out the inscript upon the picture: "Helen Armstrong--for him she loves." The letter is addressed to Charles Clancy; to him the photograph must have been sent.

When the burning logs are kicked into a blaze; when by its light he reads Helen Armstrong's letter, and looks upon her photograph--on that sweet inscript intended for himself--he cries out in ecstasy,-- "Thank heaven! she is true--still true!" No longer looks he the sad despairing invalid, but the lover--strong, proud, triumphant.

Drawing it out, and holding it up to the light, he asks playfully: "Helen; was it meant fo' me?" "No," she evasively answers, "it was meant for me." "Oh! the likeness, yes; but the inscript--these pleasant words written underneath?" "Put it back into; our pocket, Charles.