The relation of his melancholy death, and the misery in which we found Mrs.Greville and poor Mary affected him so deeply, I dreaded their effect on his health; but this was nothing to his wretchedness when, by his repeated questions, he absolutely wrung from me the tale of his sister's death, his mother's desolation: no words can portray the extent of his self-reproach.

It is misery to look upon him now, and feel what he might have been, had his mother been indeed permitted to exercise her rights.

There is no happiness for Alfred Greville this side of the Channel; he pines for home--for his mother's blessing and forgiveness, and till he receives them, health will not, cannot return.
* * * * * In prison he remained for six long weary months, with the consciousness that, amidst the many light companions with whom he had associated, there was not one to whom he could appeal for friendship and assistance in his present situation, and the thoughts of his mother and sister returned with greater force, from the impossibility of learning anything concerning them.

The hope of escaping never left him, and, with the assistance of a comrade, he finally effected it on the 27th of July, the confusion of the city aiding him far more effectually than he believed possible.

He came down to Rouen in a coal-barge, so completely exhausted, that he declared, had not the thought of England and his mother been uppermost, he would gladly have laid down in the open streets to die.