ABSTRACT
During the last illness of my uncle, I had kept up a regular correspondence with my sister; and he had no sooner expired, than, with the approbation of Mr Holloway, I invited her and Mrs Willis, to superintend with me such details as might be necessary, on the demise of the head of the family. Audley Mandeville, in the last period of his life, had expressed no wish to see any absent connection or relation; and it was therefore thought advisable to defer the visit of Henrietta, till after the melancholy event of his death. It was so arranged, that / the arrival of my friends took place, on the day subsequent to my own return from the solemnity of the funeral. I had just completed the eighteenth year of my age.
