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The consequence of this, upon a , so lively, so inexperienced as Mrs Brandon's, was but too natural She resigned herself at first to all the misery of her situation; and happy had it been if she had not lived to overcorets which the remembrance of me occasioned But can onder that, with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her (for e, and I ith iment in the East Indies) she should fall? Had I reland, perhaps--but Ifroe The shock which her itation, "was of trifling weight--was nothing to what I felt when I heard, about two years afterwards, of her divorce It was THAT which threw this gloom,--even now the recollection of what I suffered--"

He could say nohastily walked for a few minutes about the room Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak He saw her concern, and corateful respect A few minutes more of silent exertion enabled him to proceed with composure

"It was nearly three years after this unhappy period before I returned to England My first care, when I DID arrive, was of course to seek for her; but the search was as fruitless as it was melancholy I could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had real allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance, and I learnt fro it had been ined, and calance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief At last, however, and after I had been six ard for a former servant of my oho had since fallen into -house, where he was confined for debt; and there, the same house, under a similar confinement, was my unfortunate sister So altered--so faded--worn down by acute suffering of every kind! hardly could I believe the ure before irl, on who her--but I have no right to wound your feelings by atte to describe it--I have pained you too much already That she was, to all appearance, in the last stage of a consureatest co tiiven I saw her placed in cos, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life: I ith her in her last moments"