His mother and sisters had also an income adequate to their simple habits.
In the meantime, Mrs.Doran was dead.

After giving birth to a daughter, she fell into miserable health; her husband took her abroad, and she died in Germany.

Thereafter Sowerby Bridge saw no more of its bugbear; Doran abandoned commerce and became a Bohemian in earnest--save that his dinner was always assured.

He wandered over Europe; he lived with Bohemian society in every capital; he kept adding to his collection of pictures (stored in a house at Woolwich, which he freely lent as an abode to a succession of ill-to-do artists); and finally he was struck with paralysis whilst conducting to their home the widow and child of a young painter who had suddenly died in the Ardennes.

The poor woman under his protection had to become his guardian.