Sir Charles was a bachelor, and for years his brothers lived with him in a sort of dependence.

Towards middle-age they both married--I was told, by his orders--and near about at the same time.

At any rate each married and each had a child--Archibald a daughter and Randall a son.
Archibald's daughter--he died two years after her birth--was brought up by her uncle, Sir Charles, who made a pet of her; but she spoilt her prospects by marrying a poor soldier, Captain Plinlimmon.
She ran away with him.

And the old man would never speak to her again, nor see her, but cut her out of his will." "I see.

And she--this daughter of Archibald Leicester--was Archibald's Plinlimmon's mother.