ABSTRACT
All the lessons of fortitude and patience, the early friends of Louisa had instilled into her mind, were insu cient to support the a icting intelligence she obtained on gaining the apartment occupied by the domestics./ ‘Dear Miss!’ exclaimed the venerable old housekeeper, (starting from her chair, and advancing to embrace the beloved adopted child of her lamented master,) ‘at what a melancholy time you have returned; had you come a few hours sooner, you would have seen him alive, but, alas! it is all over: the best of men is gone, and these aged eyes shall never again see any thing like comfort!’
