Adopted once more by the bereaved Batchfords.

Second reconciliation.
Another lapse of time.

Reverend Finch, left a widower with one daughter, became personally acquainted with an inhabitant of the great city near which he ministered, who was also a widower with one daughter.

The status of the parent, in this case--social-political-religious--was Shoemaker-Radical-Baptist.

Reverend Finch, still wanting money, swallowed it all; and married the daughter, with a dowry of three thousand pounds.
This proceeding alienated from him for ever, not the Batchfords only, but the peacemaking elder brother as well.