This was the letter which she wrote to him-- I don't think that writing radical stuff for a penny newspaper is a respectable occupation for a gentleman, and I will have nothing to do with it.

If you choose to do such work, I cannot help it; but it was not for such that I sent you to Harrow and Oxford, nor yet up to London and paid L100 a year to Mr.Lambert.I think you are treating me badly, but that is nothing to your bad treatment of yourself.

You need not trouble yourself to answer this, unless you are prepared to say that you will not write any more stuff for that penny newspaper.

Only I wish to be understood.

I will have no connection that I can help, and no acquaintance at all, with radical scribblers and incendiaries.
JEMIMA STANBURY.
The Close, Exeter, April 15, 186--.
Hugh Stanbury had answered this, thanking his aunt for past favours, and explaining to her,--or striving to do so,--that he felt it to be his duty to earn his bread, as a means of earning it had come within his reach.