For this he cast her off and disinherited her.

Grandfather hated him and his views, and he could not forgive my mother even after my father died, which was two years after their marriage.
"Lord Richard Brace, my mother's only brother, married the daughter of the Duchess of B----.

You, Rosalie, are Lady Rosalie Brace of Brace Hall, W--shire, England, the true granddaughter of General Lord Abbott Brace, one of the noblest and richest men of his day.

Please let me go on; I cannot endure the interruptions.

The absolute, unalterable proof of what I say shall be established through the confession of my own mother, in whose possession lies every document necessary to give back to you that which she would have given to me.
"Your mother died a few weeks after you were born, and Sir Richard, who loved my mother in the face of his father's displeasure, placed you in her care, while he rushed off, heart-broken, to find solace in Egypt.