The hopes and plans they had cherished long, and laboured hard to fulfil, were cruelly frustrated; henceforward their days were embittered and the natural rest of their nights destroyed by his paroxysms of remorse.

Let us read of the misery caused to his poor sisters in Charlotte's own affecting words:-- "We have had sad work with Branwell.

He thought of nothing but stunning or drowning his agony of mind.

No one in this house could have rest; and, at last, we have been obliged to send him from home for a week, with some one to look after him.

He has written to me this morning, expressing some sense of contrition.