Let Sir Gilbert know that we have placed
at his banker's, after having settled it upon you, double the sum
which caused our unhappy differences. Let the past be forgotten;
let us again meet as those should meet who have gathered together
round the same hearth, mourned over the same grave, and shared joys
and sorrows together, as it is our anxious desire to do now. I
shall be my own messenger, and shall wait in person to receive your
reply.--Your ever attached brother,
"HENRY LATOUR."
A few minutes more and Lady Grange was in the arms of her brother; while
Sir Gilbert was silently grasping the hand of one whom, but for
misfortune, he would never have known as a friend.
All the neighbourhood pitied the gentle lady, the benefactress of the
poor, when she dismissed her servants, sold her jewels, and quitted
her beautiful home to seek a humbler shelter. Amongst the hundreds who
crowded to the public auction of the magnificent furniture and plate,
which had been the admiration of all who had seen them, many thought
with compassion of the late owners, reduced to such sudden poverty,
though the generosity of the lady's family had saved them from want
or dependence.
And yet truly, never since her marriage had Lady Grange been less an
object of compassion.
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