Mr.and Mrs.Redwing in fact found themselves possessed of nearly fourteen thousand a year, proceeding from most orderly investments.

This would naturally involve a change in their mode of life.

In the first place they paid a visit to America; then they settled in London, where, about the same time, their only child, Beatrice was born.

A month after the child's coming into the world, the father withdrew from it--into a private lunatic asylum.

He had not been himself from the day when he heard of the fortune that had come to him; such an access of blessedness was not provided for in the constitution of his mind.