ABSTRACT
In a few days Mrs. Waldron had made all her arrangements, and on Monday the 20th of October they set o together in a post-chaise from Glendemus. ey went about ve miles out of their road, to set down Miss Walker at her own house, and then proceeded for Limerick, which was about y miles of the journey, and where they intended to sleep the rst night. David Morgan, who was now perfectly recovered, attended on horseback, and every step they advanced dilated Edward’s heart, from the consciousness of its drawing him nearer and nearer to the dear possessor of it. No unpleasing circumstance happened during the day; they arrived in safety at their inn, and the agreeable humour of Mrs. Waldron was never at a loss for conversation./ She drew indeed from Edward the relation of his whole life, and dwelt particularly on the earliest parts of it; but from his relation could discover nothing to strengthen the suspicion she had imbibed. He described his mother as still living, and likely long to do so – as well as his father, who had neither of them been ever out of Wales, except when his father had been at college; and that he was still an unbene ced clergyman: – but thanks to the generosity of that truly noble earl whom they were now going to see, he had been able to add some comforts to the age of his parents, and was himself, by the aid of the same benevolence, in a way to attain a station which was as much beyond his merits as his expectations. ‘If I may judge of your merits by what I have heard and seen,’ replied Mrs. Waldron, ‘I know of no station beyond them, and hardly any to which I do not suspect them to be entitled: but God will in his own due time bring all things to light;/ for ‘there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed, nor covered that shall not be known.’ Edward was an entire stranger to the cause of this remark, and at some loss to account for it, but did not think proper to press for an explanation. He replied only in general, that ‘the ways of Providence had been in respect to him wonderful; and that he should ever pay a cheerful and ready submission to them, whether favourable or severe.’
