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Rh those with whom she was now associated, rendered so impressive to the mother, as arising from her own "continued heresy," that she adopted the Roman religion in the most open and ceremonious manner, and, like many other proselytes, in a short time be came a positive bigot. The Riccardini family had been removed some time, Isabella born for several years, and still no prospect of the wished-for boy succeeding; when poor Granard, sunk into premature age by useless solicitude, found in Glentworth, (then a young man seeking independence by his own exertions as a junior partner in the house to which he had now transferred Charles Penrhyn,) the consolations offered by a patient listener and a pitying friend, with little power but sincere inclination to help him. All that could be done in the way of arranging his affairs, and so winding them up, that he might ascertain that his widow and children had any thing to secure them from abject poverty, was the effect of Glentworth's knowledge and exertion, and the trifling presents which rendered his "presence a little holiday" in the nursery, were frequently accompanied by the journals or the new publications, which might divert the father's mind from contemplating his daily increasing debility and decreasing property.

Could Mr. Granard have foreseen that Glentworth's bachelor uncle would, from the fear of making a will, have left him the heir of his estates, and their