As the one of all whom I would have forget me in my disgrace.

And now, to-day of all days; just when I have found the father's vices confirmed in the son, you come before me, as if from the bowels of the earth, to remind me of what I was." Mrs.Buckley was very much shocked and provoked by this, but held her tongue magnanimously.

And what do you think, my dear reader, was the cause of all this hysteric tragic nonsense on the part of Mary?
Simply this.

The poor soul had been put out of temper.

Her son Charles, as I mentioned before, had had a scandalous liason with one Meg Macdonald, daughter of one of the Donovans' (now Brentwood's) shepherds.