Mrs.Maltravers died in giving birth to Ernest, her second son.

Her husband loved her tenderly, and was long inconsolable for her loss.

He could not bear the sight of the child that had cost him so dear a sacrifice.

Cleveland and his sister, Lady Julia Danvers, were residing with him at the time of this melancholy event; and with judicious and delicate kindness, Lady Julia proposed to place the unconscious offender amongst her own children for some months.

The proposition was accepted, and it was two years before the infant Ernest was restored to the paternal mansion.