l to you for befriending my poor child
when she was almost dying of cold and hunger.'

Mrs. Williams made many exclamations of joy and surprise at the happy
change that had taken place in my situation. We all entered the shop,
and, seating ourselves as well as we could, my father gave her a slight
detail of the circumstances that had brought me to his knowledge. We
stayed with her nearly an hour, and, before leaving the shop, my father
obliged her to accept of bank-notes to the amount of a hundred pounds.
We then returned to the carriage, and my father ordered the coachman to
drive to D---- Street in the borough.

'For,' said he, 'we will now go and make our acknowledgment to Mr. Smith
and his wife, for I think it is as proper to reprove them for their
barbarity as to reward those who have treated you with kindness.'

When we arrived at the street I pointed out the house, but it was now in
a different business. We entered the shop, and on inquiring for Smiths,
were told that they had been gone away for some time, for that the
husband had given himself up to drinking, and the wife to gambling till
they were involved in debt to everybody that would trust them; and at
last they had moved away in the night without paying anyone, and it was
not known where they were gone to.'

'It is very well,' said my father, 'these people by their bad management
and ill conduct have brought a punishment upon themselves. I shall not
seek for them any further. It is not my wish to reproach those who are
fallen into distress, and that, I think, is likely to be their present
state.'

We then returned home, and my father informed us that it was his
intention, in the course of two or three days, to take a longer journey,
which would give us much pleasure and also much pain.

'For,' said he, 'we will go to E----. I wish to visit Mr. Sanders and
your good nurse, and to go to the grave of your dear mother. She must
not lie there; I must have her removed and laid in our family vault at
Malbourne. Though so cruelly separated from her during my life, yet one
tomb shall contain us at our death.'

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CONCLUSION.

_Mr. Sanders was very happy to know that Lady Anne had found her father,
and the Earl gave him a living worth two hundred pounds a year. He also
provided for Nurse Jenkins and her children, and reprimanded the
overseers of the workhouse, but made a present to the parish for the
benefit of the p