ABSTRACT
WITH the delicious consciousness of having done a good action – of having rescued a fellow-creature from the most deplorable state of despondence, and snatched his infant child from the sad destiny to which its helpless age might now, and its defenceless sex hereafter expose it, Mr. Halesworth attended Mrs. Woodfield back to London. Mr. de Cideville accompanied them to a lodging in a neighbouring street, where they left him as calm as under such circumstances of recent and bitter affliction could be expected. The little girl Mrs. Woodfield received entirely under her own care: her daughters were delighted with the lovely child; and were more impatient 204than ever to return to their home, that they might enter upon the cares their mother assigned to them.
