Do you know any thing of that girl Sarah?
Her cross-grained uncle has never written me a word since he left England.

If I live three years longer I shall come to America, and until that time, adieu.

Your father,--Henry Temple Esq.

M.P." "How short and cold!" was Mary's first exclamation, for her impressions of her grandfather were not very agreeable.
"It is like all his letters," answered Mrs.Campbell "But it was cruel to make me think Ella was dead, for how else could I suppose he had lost her?
and when I asked the particulars of her death, he sent me no answer; but at this I did not so much wonder, for he never wrote oftener than once in two or three years, and the next that I heard, he was dead, and I was heiress of all his wealth." Then, as the conviction came over her that Mary was indeed the child of her own sister, she wound her arms about her neck, and kissing her lips, murmured, "My child,--my Mary.

Oh, had I known this sooner, you should not have been so cruelly deserted, and little Allie should never have died in the alms-house.