Excerpt from The False Friend, Vol. 1 of 4: A Domestic Story

The next claimant on his warmly phila'nthropic feelings was the infant Gertrude. Left unprotected, though too young to know the magnitude of her lofs, and thrown on a wide world of ibrrow, where her defencelefs (ex is expofed to every peril, every humi liation, {he found an afylum in the bofom which loved her gallant father, and which throbbed to bellow the bond of attachment on this ill-fated orphan.

My Lord was then a minor, and preparing for his continental travels.

The infant was committed to the care of an old and faithful female fervant of the B 2 family.

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