condemn, in anger, Henry's having so hastily abandoned him and his
native country, in resentment, as he conceived, of a few misfortunes
which his usual fortitude should have taught him to have borne. Yet
was he still desirous of his return, and wrote two or three letters
expressive of his wish, which he anxiously endeavoured should reach
him. But many years having elapsed without any intelligence from
him, and a report having arrived that he, and all the party with
whom he went, were slain by the savage inhabitants of the island,
William's despair of seeing his brother again caused the desire to
diminish; while attention and affection to a still nearer and dearer
relation than Henry had ever been to him, now chiefly engaged his
mind.

Lady Clementina had brought him a son, on whom from his infancy, he
doated--and the boy, in riper years, possessing a handsome person
and evincing a quickness of parts, gratified the father's darling
passion, pride, as well as the mother's vanity.

The dean had, beside this child, a domestic comfort highly
gratifying to his ambition: the bishop of **** became intimately
acquainted with him soon after his marriage, and from his daily
visits had become, as it were, a part of the family. This was much
honour to the dean, not only as the bishop was his superior in the
Church, but was of that part of the bench whose blood is ennobled by
a race of ancestors, and to which all wisdom on the plebeian side
crouches in humble respect.

Year after year rolled on in pride and grandeur; the bishop and the
dean passing their time in attending levees and in talking politics;
Lady Clementina passing hers in attending routs and in talking of