returning affection for his brother: but little did he suspect how
much he loved him, till (after sending to various places to inquire
for him) he learned--that on his wife's decease, unable to support
her loss in the surrounding scene, Henry had taken the child she
brought him in his arms, shaken hands with all his former friends--
passing over his brother in the number--and set sail in a vessel
bound for Africa, with a party of Portuguese and some few English
adventurers, to people there the uninhabited part of an extensive
island.

This was a resolution, in Henry's circumstances, worthy a mind of
singular sensibility: but William had not discerned, till then,
that every act of Henry's was of the same description; and more than
all, his every act towards him. He staggered when he heard the
tidings; at first thought them untrue; but quickly recollected, that
Henry was capable of surprising deeds! He recollected with a force
which gave him torture, the benevolence his brother had ever shown
to him--the favours he had heaped upon him--the insults he had
patiently endured in requital!

In the first emotion, which this intelligence gave the dean, he
forgot the dignity of his walk and gesture: he ran with frantic
enthusiasm to every corner of his deanery where the least vestige of
what belonged to Henry remained--he pressed close to his breast,
with tender agony, a coat of his, which by accident had been left
there--he kissed and wept over a walking-stick which Henry once had
given him--he even took up with delight a music book of his
brother's--nor would his poor violin have then excited anger.

When his grief became more calm, he sat in deep and melancholy