Page:Lady Anne Granard 3.pdf/258

256 be expected in a successor with a large and promising family. His kindness made them as much at home as possible; and Isabella had soon a kind of childish pleasure in finding the place where she kept rabbits, and in seeking the little gardens, still in the hands of children; but on the mind of Lady Allerton a far different emotion prevailed. In such a place she had first learned to ride; and, whilst she was instructed by the groom, dear papa, in his anxiety, stood by to watch her; in that avenue she had accompanied his daily walk when he was unable to go farther; and by that elm-tree she had watched for his returning carriage when he was too weak to walk at all. Her recollections of this nature were fully shared by Mr. Glentworth (ever prone to acute feeling); and he, too, soon became a wanderer into the park, where he might recall the early observations made by his love on the sorrows of a friend he held especially dear, because friends were at that time few. Whoever had taken the pains to observe these parties thus suffering from the renewal of sorrows long past would have learned the important lesson of never flying from the scene of our afflictions, but bearing as best we may that which God has appointed in the place where we received it.