After that they may all rot where they grow; he troubles his head no more.

This is more than his old friend Hope can stand; he interferes, and sends the fruit to market, and fills great casks with superlative cider and perry, and keeps the account square, with a little help from Mrs.Easton, who has returned to her old master, and is a firm but kind mother to him.
Grace Clifford for some time could not be got to visit him.

Perhaps she is one of those ladies who can not get over personal violence; he had handled her roughly, to keep her from going to her father's help.

After all, there may have been other reasons; it is not so easy to penetrate all the recesses of the female heart.

One thing is certain: she would not go near him for months; but when she did go with her father--and he had to use all his influence to take her there--the rapture and the tears of joy with which the poor old fellow received her disarmed her in a moment.
She let him take her through hot-houses and show her his children--"the only children I have now," said he--and after that she never refused to visit this erring man.