The cause of his disgrace appears enveloped in mystery.

Walter certainly alluded to it, but so vaguely, that I did not like to ask further particulars.

I dreaded the effect it would have on Mr.Grahame, but little imagined poor Lady Helen would have sunk beneath it." "I believe few know how she doted on that boy.

It was misguided, but still it was love that caused her to ruin him as she did in his childhood.

From the hour he was expelled from Cambridge, she never held up her head; it was so cruelly ungrateful of him to set off for Ireland without once seeking her; and this last stroke was too much for her to bear.