ABSTRACT
Every place where the oppressed heart has received an additional load of sorrow, becomes hateful to the unhappy sufferer: and change of situation seems for a while to afford relief. Mrs. Denzil was now eager to quit her lodgings at Wandsworth, and to go farther into the country; but the season of the year, as it was mid winter, was unfavourable to her removal; and while she positively refused any assistance from D’Alonville, she felt how impossible it was to remove such a family, unless she could procure justice from those of whom she had a right to demand it. – Nor could she resolve to abandon her unfortunate French friends; for though the arrival of De Touranges had relieved his mother and his wife from the most severe and insupportable of their sorrows, Mrs. Denzil understood that he had exhausted all his pecuniary resources, and that their situation was rendered more distressing, rather than relieved by his arrival; for it was probable, that even indigence itself would fail of subduing the high and imperious spirit of the Marquis, who, accustomed from his earliest infancy to every luxury and indulgence that illustrious birth and high affluence gave him a right to enjoy, had not yet learned, nor seemed ever likely to learn, the hard lesson of humbling his spirit to his fortune; nor could he think, without feeling all the torments of mortified pride, that his mother and wife were reduced in a foreign country to avail themselves of talents acquired as matters of amusement or pleasure,12 to procure a subsistence for themselves and for his child, the sole remaining branch of a family so noble, and heir to a fortune which was equal to that of the proudest British peer, whose bounty or caprice might contribute to their existence.
