Was I not plucking out my own eye when I caused pain to you?
You ought to come back to me and your father.

You ought to do so even now.

But whether you come back or not, will you not remember that I am the mother who bore you, and have always loved you?
And when further distress shall come upon you, will you not return to me ?--Your unhappy but most loving Mother, 'MARY BOLTON.' In answer to this Hester, in a long letter, acknowledged her mother's love, and said that the memory of those two days at Chesterton should lessen neither her affection nor her filial duty; but, she went on to say that, in whatever distress might come upon her, she should turn to her husband for comfort and support, whether he should be with her, or whether he should be away from her.

'But,' she added, concluding her letter, 'beyond my husband and my child, you and papa will always be the dearest to me.'.