[The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Queen of Hearts CHAPTER VI 29/37
His end was described to me as a "highly edifying one." But as he was also reported to have sent his forgiveness to his wife--which was as much as to say that _he_ was the injured person of the two--I take leave to consider that he was the same impudent vagabond in his last moments that he had been all his life.
His Scotch widow has married again, and is now settled in London.
I hope her husband is all her own property this time. Mr.Meeke must not be forgotten, although he has dropped out of the latter part of my story because he had nothing to do with the serious events which followed Josephine's perjury.
In the confusion and wretchedness of that time, he was treated with very little ceremony, and was quite passed over when we left the neighborhood.
After pining and fretting some time, as we afterward heard, in his lonely parsonage, he resigned his living at the first chance he got, and took a sort of under-chaplain's place in an English chapel abroad.
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