Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The letters of Ladies Derviile and Meliora gave to the pure heart of Rosabella all the innate satisfaction, that innocence must feel on justification, and affection could experience on having its claims restored; and on the following morning after the receipt of these cordial consolations, our heroine, with an animated preface, expressive of her sensibility for their kindness and hospitality to her, announced to Captain and Mrs. Gore, that she had received her mandate to return to the protection of Lady Derviile, whose letter she gave for their perusal, since in it were contained no secrets to interdict it; while her grateful heart led Rer to that confidence, to do justice to the affectionate kindness with which she was recalled, and for the further purpose of conveying conviction to Mr.Trench and Egremont, of her not having failed in attention to their request. Although Captain Gore had now learned almost to worship Rosabella as a being of celestial mould, he experienced a sensation nearly approaching to satisfaction, in the idea of her removal from the society of Mrs. Gore; so ungenial to sympathizing kindness, so comfortless in every way to one, whose uncomplaining, submissive resignation to the torturing disappointments, which had so lately assailed her, peculiarly demanded, he thought, the tender sooth- ings of female friendship; and although he augured no increase of happiness from being left solely to his domestic tete d tete, the philanthropy of his nature led him not to wish for the detention of his interesting guest one moment unnecessarily, to break the ennui of the mournful solitude he should be doomed for hours each day to; folly having bereaved him of the companion he had married to obtain. On the subsequent morning, an express arrived from Mrs….