Blind and bedridden, her whole dependence was on her only son.

This affliction called forth a new character in Edward Aubrey.

This mother had stripped herself of so many comforts to provide for him,--he devoted his youth to her in return.

She was now old and imbecile.

With the mingled selfishness and sentiment of age, she would not come to London,--she would not move from the village where her husband lay buried, where her youth had been spent.