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Good-by, my daughter; I will have neither reply nor remonstrance, nor
will I be moved by any argument from this my resolution."
He then passed out of the house, entered his carriage with some
difficulty, and proceeded home with a heart considerably relieved by
what he had done.
It was in vain that Alice and her father did subsequently remonstrate
with him upon the subject. He refused to listen to them, and said, his
determination was immovable.
"But," he added, "if it be any satisfaction to you to know it, I have
not forgotten my relations, to whom I have left the legacies originally
intended for them. I would have left it directly to Henry Woodward, were
it not that his grasping mother sent him to another relation, from whom
she calculated that he might have larger expectations; and I hope he
may realize them. At all events, my relatives will find themselves in
exactly the same position as if our beloved Agnes had lived."
Mr. Hamilton, then advanced in years--for Agnes might be termed the
child of his old age--did not survive her death twelve months.


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