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The Mother’s Recompense, Volume II.

CHAPTER VI
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Thank God, I sought not his house with any hostile intention, with any irritation urging me against him.

Percy, he is dead, and let his faults die with him." "Dead!" repeated the young man, shocked and astonished, and Herbert started up.

His lip quivered with the vain effort to ask an explanation.
It was even so, that very morning Greville had breathed his last, with all his sins upon his head, for no time had been allowed him either for repentance or atonement.

A few days after Mary had written to Herbert, her father had been brought home senseless, and dreadfully injured, by a fall from his horse.

His constitution, shattered by intemperance and continued dissipation, was not proof against the fever that ensued; delirium never left him.


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