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ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD 291
" ' He has been here,' says Charles ; when I said, ' Who has
been here ?' That noble young fellow,' says my General ; ' that
noble noble Philip Firming.' Which noble his conduct I own it has
been. ' Whilst you were at church he came again—here into this
very room, where I was sitting, doubtiug and despairing, with the
Holy Book before my eyes, and no comfort out of it. And he said
to me, " General, I want to talk to you about my grandfather's will.
You don't suppose that because my father has deceived you and
ruined me, I will carry the ruin farther, and visit his wrong upon
children and innocent people ?" Those were the young man's
words,' my General said ; and, ' oh, Eliza !' says he, ' what pangs
of remorse I felt when I remembered we had used hard words about
him,' which I own we had, for his manners are rough and haughty,
and I have heard things of him which I do believe now can't be
true.
" All Monday my poor man was obliged to keep his bed with a
smart attack of his fever. But yesterday he was quite bright and
well again, and the Pendennis party took Charlotte for a drive,
and showed themselves most polite. She reminds me of Mrs. Tom
Fletcher of the Horse Artillery, but that I think I have mentioned
before. My paper is full ; and with our best to MacWhirter and
the children, I am always my dearest Emily's affectionate sister,
" ELIZA BAYNES."