Lucretia's banishment from Laughton was a just humiliation, but it humbled a generous heart to inflict the sentence.

Thus, on all accounts, the remembrance of Lucretia was painful and unwelcome to the successor of Sir Miles.

There was a silence; Lady Mary pressed her husband's hand.
"It is strange," said he, giving vent to his thoughts at that tender sign of sympathy in his feeling,--"strange that, after all, she did not marry Mainwaring, but fixed her choice on that subtle Frenchman.

But she has settled abroad now, perhaps for life; a great relief to my mind.
Yes, let us never recur to her." "Fortunately," said Lady Mary, with some hesitation, "she does not seem to have created much interest here.

The poor seldom name her to me, and our neighbours only with surprise at her marriage.