"There are no grandfathers or grandmothers of the dead child (on the side of either of the parents) now alive.

It was not likely there should be, considering the ages of Mr.and Mrs.Vanstone when they died.
But it is a misfortune to be reasonably lamented that no other uncles or aunts survive.

There are cousins alive; a son and two daughters of that elder sister of Mr.Vanstone's, who married Archdeacon Bartram, and who died, as I told you, some years since.

But their interest is superseded by the interest of the nearer blood.

No, Miss Garth, we must look facts as they are resolutely in the face.