land, which he did, taking his two daughters with him.
It has never been clearly ascertained whether Montague Bramleigh had
quarrelled with his wife or consented to her accompanying her father;
for, while there were letters from him to her full of affection and
regard, there are some strange passages in Giacomo's diary that seem to
hint at estrangement and coldness. When her child, my father, was born,
she pressed Bramleigh strongly to come over to the christening; but,
though he promised at first, and appeared overjoyed at the birth of his
heir, he made repeated pretexts of this or that engagement, and ended
by not coming. Old Lami must have given way to some outburst of anger at
this neglect and desertion, for he sent back Bramleigh's letters
unopened; and the poor Enrichetta, after struggling bravely for several
months under this heartless and cruel treatment, sunk and died. The old
man wandered away towards the south of Europe after this, taking with
him his grandchild and his remaining daughter; and the first entry we
find in his diary is about three years later, where we read,
'Chambery,--Must leave this, where I thought I had at last found a home.
Niccolo Baldassare is bent on gaining Carlotta's affections. Were they
to marry it would be the ruin of both. Each has the same faults as the
other.'

"And later on,--

"'Had an explanation with N. B., who declares that, with or without my
consent, he will make C. his wife. I have threatened to bring him before
the Council; but he defies me, and says he is ready to abandon
the society rather than give her up. I must quit this secretly and
promptly.'

"We next find him at Treviso, where he was painting the Basilica of St.
Guedolfo, and here he speaks of himself as a lonely old man, deserted
and forsaken, showing that his daughter had left him some time before.
He alludes to offers that had been made him to go to England; but
declares that nothing would induce him to set foot in that country
more. One passage would imply that Carlotta, on leaving home, took her
sister's boy with her, for in the old man's writing there are these
words,--

"'I do not want to hear more of them; but I would wish tidings of the
boy. I have dreamed of him twice.'

"From that time forth the journal merely records the places he stopped
at, the works he was engaged in, and the sums he received in payment.
For the most part, his last labors were in out-of-the-way, obscure
spots, where he wor