The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 285: what you’re looking at

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268 REYNOLDS’ WORKS her on to so desperate a step as accepting libertine proposals. In any case, you will not lose a friend in me. I shall come and see you again to-morrow; but as I feel interested in all that concerns you, mind you send and let me know the instant your daughter comes back. For that she will come back, with a satistactory account of her present absence, I feel confident. Here is my address.” Thus speaking, the old gentleman laid his card upon the table, and having kissed little Charley, who had gone to bed an hour previously, crying bitterly at his sister’s absence, the eccentric benefactor took his departure. He did not, however, leave the house without placing gold in the landlady’s hands, and desiring her to minister in all possible ways to the comfort and well-being of Mrs. Leyden. But, alas! unhappiness had once again entered that humble chamber, not the unhappiness produced by poverty, for this evil existed there no longer, but the unhappiness arising from the disappearance of Henrietta and the self-accusings of her invalid mother. It appeared from the card which the old gentleman had left upon the table that the name of the poor family’s benefactor was Mr. Jonathan Gunthorpe, and that his address was at the Bell and Crown, Holborn. CONNIE OO KS (E(0)