What should I not have lost had I not done it! As usual my cards turned up trumps! but they began to do so in a way that caused me much, and my wife more, grief at the time.

Within two years after my marriage, poor, dear, good, loving Harriet caught small-pox and died! She was much more largely endowed than her half-sister, to whom she bequeathed all she had.
She had a brother, as I have said above.

But he had altogether alienated himself from his family by becoming a Roman Catholic priest There was no open quarrel.

I met him frequently in after years at Garrow's table at Torquay, and remember his bitter complaints that he was tempted by the appearance of things at table which he ought not to eat.

It would have been of no use to give or bequeath money to him, for it would have gone immediately to Romanist ecclesiastical purposes.