ABSTRACT
As soon as the party reached London, Ellesmere went to lodgings that had been taken for him, where he had appointed to meet him, a man of great skill, under whose care Sir Maynard had insisted upon his putting himself, as soon as he arrived in England. – D’Alonville leaving De Touranges at the coffee-house (where they were fortunate enough to meet the Abbé de St. Remi), accompanied Ellesmere to these lodgings, where, to the surprize rather than the satisfaction of the wounded soldier, he found his father. The recollection of the son he had lost, and the sight of Ellesmere, pale and emaciated, perhaps, too, some unwelcome reproaches from his own heart, and the little affection he had formerly shewn him, combined to affect the spirit of Sir Maynard, who appeared to D’Alonville to be in a very bad state of health. As the latter knew he could be of no farther use to his friend, and suspected that he was not very welcome to Sir Maynard, he withdrew as soon as Ellesmere would permit him to take his leave, and returned to the place where he had left De Touranges and St. Remi, taking with him the direction contained in Mrs. Denzil’s last letters, to the village where she and her family lodged, and near them the ladies De Touranges; information that he had before absolutely refused to give to the Marquis, whose impatience was so great, that D’Alonville doubted how far he could depend on his not breaking his word, and going alone to their lodgings had he known where they were.
