Her counsels, her example had had but little apparent effect on him when a wild and reckless boy at his father's house, but they had sustained him in his affliction; it was then he knew the value of those serious thoughts and feelings his sister had so laboured to inculcate, and associated as they were with her, she became dearer each time he felt himself supported, under his many trials, by fervent prayer and that implicit trust, of which she had so often spoken.
In wondering astonishment the younger members of the family had regarded this little scene some minutes before the truth had flashed on the mind of Mrs.Hamilton.Both St.Eval and Percy had guessed who in reality the stranger was, and waited in some anxiety for the effect that recognition would have on Mrs.Hamilton, whom Edward had already considerably agitated.

With characteristic delicacy of feeling, all then left the room, Sir George Wilmot and Mr.Hamilton alone remaining with the long-separated brother and sister.
"My uncle Charles himself! Fool, idiot that I was never to discover this before!" had been Edward's exclamation, in a tone of unrestrained joy.
A short time sufficed to restore all to comparative composure, but a longer interval was required for Charles Manvers, whom we must now term Lord Delmont, to ask and to answer the innumerable questions which were naturally called forth by his unexpected return; much had he to hear and much to tell, even leaving, as he said he would, the history of his adventures in Algiers to amuse two or three winter evenings, when all his family were around him.
"All my family," he repeated, in a tone of deep feeling.

"Do I say this?
I, the isolated, desolate being I imagined myself; I, who believed so many years had passed, that I should remain unrecognised, unloved, forgotten.

Reproach me not, my sister, the misery I occasioned myself, the emotions of this moment are punishment enough.

And are all those whom I saw here yours, Hamilton ?" he continued, more cheerfully.