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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL CHARLOTTE WALTON's STORY. Mrs. Ruthven had already passed a couple of months at Brighton; she was all the better for it, and to tell the truth it had been a pleasant time. There's a great deal in change of air and change of scene, you know. What had rendered Brighton particularly pleasant to John Ruthven's widow was the fact that she had really found a friend in a Mrs. Walton, who was, like herself, a young widow. Though she was a young and pretty woman still, and though she had gone out of widow's weeds, yet Mrs. Walton, though she did not parade her grief at her husband's loss, had definitely made up her mind that she would never change her condition. She had an income of about four 219 hundred a year, which more than sufficed for her modest wants, and enabled her to do a considerable amount of good in a quiet and unobtrusive sort of way. Mrs. Walton had been in love with her husband; the two young people had married for love; both of them had been brought up in the lap of luxury; and both by that imprudent love match of theirs had had to taste the bitter cup of extreme poverty. Mr. Bullivant had been the solicitor of the Walton family; he had known the late Conrad Walton ever since he had been a little boy, and he had a very great respect and liking for Conrad Walton's widow. It was Mr. Bullivant who had brought the two ladies together. "I am sure you will like each other," he had said to both of them. "My friend, John Ruthven's widow, is left extremely well off, but she's practically alone in the world, my dear, and she wants somebody to live with her, and you're the very woman, Charlotte Walton. You must find it very uncomfortable knocking about the world by yourself. Why on earth shouldn't you two ladies go into partnership. 'Gad, it woul...
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