"The next day, my friend bade us adieu. Had he expressed the least wish to that effect, I would have accompanied him to the South--but he did not, and we parted, never to meet again. He died abroad, and Charlotte became the inheritor of his large fortune. Her grief for the loss of her brother affected her health and spirits to such an alarming degree, that instant change of air and scene was recommended by her physician, and she left London to spend some months with her aunt on the Continent. I would have gladly made one in their party, but this she forbade me to do in the most positive terms. "I fancied that her manner to me had grown cold and distant during the separation which had interv…
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