to pay any present expenses; and to request, when you are settled, to know where the first quarter shall be paid.
"I shall write to Mr.Jackson (who, I think, is the bailiff) to detail my instructions as to selling the crops, &c., and discharging the servants; so that you may have no further trouble.
"I am, Madam, "Your obedient Servant, "ROBERT BEAUFORT.
"Berkeley Square, September 12th, 18--." The letter fell from Catherine's hands.

Her grief was changed to indignation and scorn.
"The insolent!" she exclaimed, with flashing eyes.

"This to me!--to me--the wife, the lawful wife of his brother! the wedded mother of his brother's children!" "Say that again, mother! again--again!" cried Philip, in a loud voice.
"His wife--wedded!" "I swear it," said Catherine, solemnly.

"I kept the secret for your father's sake.

Now for yours, the truth must be proclaimed." "Thank God! thank God!" murmured Philip, in a quivering voice, throwing his arms round his brother, "We have no brand on our names, Sidney." At those accents, so full of suppressed joy and pride, the mother felt at once all that her son had suspected and concealed.