For three months he buried himself in increased seclusion at Llangwillan, refusing all invitations, and denying himself steadfastly to all.

At the termination of that period, however, he once more joined his friends, an altered and a happier man.

His misanthropy had departed, and often Mr.
Hamilton remarked to his wife, that the Grahame of fifty resembled the Grahame of five-and-twenty far more than he had during the intervening years.

Lilla and Edward were sources of such deep interest to him, that in their society he seemed to forget the misery occasioned by his other children.

The shock of her brother's death was long felt by Lilla; she sorrowed that he was thus suddenly cut off without time for one thought of eternity, one word of penitence, of prayer.