ABSTRACT
When a summons, which she reluctantly obeyed, came from her solicitor as well as from Mr. Petrify, to attend in London, the low ebb of Mrs. Glenmorris’s fortune was such, as left her hardly twenty pounds in her pocket, and she had some weeks lodging to pay. – She had resolutely declined any assistance either from Delmont, when the affair of the protested notes was necessarily explained to her, or from Armitage, whose fortune was very limited, and whose continual exertions in the service of his friends, left him often in distress himself. The doubts, therefore, of Mrs. Glenmorris whether she should be able to support, even for a short time, the expences of sojourning in London, had made her for a moment entertain the thought of going to the house of a friend of her family’s, and once of her’s, a Mrs. Grinsted, to whom some time before she had applied, with an hope that this lady, who was an intimate at the house of Lady Mary, might have brought about a reconciliation; but either the attempt was languidly made, or the long rooted antipathy of the dowager to her youngest daughter was become too inveterate, for it proved wholly fruitless.
