"Mr.Coleby," said the knight, "I have heard how cruelly you have been used by your creditor, and beg you will accept this trifling present, if it can be of any service to you in your distress." So saying, he put five guineas into his hand.

The poor man was so confounded at such an unlooked-for acquisition, that he stood motionless and silent, unable to thank the donor; and Mr.Felton conveyed him to the door, observing that his heart was too full for utterance.

But in a little time his wife bursting into the room with her five children, looked around, and going up to Sir Launcelot without any direction, exclaimed, "This is the angel sent by Providence to succour me and my poor innocents." Then falling at his feet, she pressed his hand and bathed it with her tears.

He raised her up with that complacency which was natural to his disposition.

He kissed all her children, who were remarkably handsome and neatly kept, though in homely apparel; and, giving her his direction, assured her she might always apply to him in her distress.
After her departure, he produced a bank-note of twenty pounds, and would have deposited it in the hands of Mr.Felton, to be distributed in charities among the objects of the place; but he desired it might be left with Mr.Norton, who was the proper person for managing his benevolence, and he promised to assist the deputy with his advice in laying it out..