sermons--being all
in fact that he had ever written. These and the Harmony fetched
ninepence a barrow load. I was surprised to hear that Joey had not given
the three or four shillings which would have bought the whole lot, but
Ernest tells me that Joey was far fiercer in his dislike of his father
than ever he had been himself, and wished to get rid of everything that
reminded him of him.
It has already appeared that both Joey and Charlotte are married. Joey
has a family, but he and Ernest very rarely have any intercourse. Of
course, Ernest took nothing under his father's will; this had long been
understood, so that the other two are both well provided for.
Charlotte is as clever as ever, and sometimes asks Ernest to come and
stay with her and her husband near Dover, I suppose because she knows
that the invitation will not be agreeable to him. There is a _de haut en
bas_ tone in all her letters; it is rather hard to lay one's finger upon
it but Ernest never gets a letter from her without feeling that he is
being written to by one who has had direct communication with an angel.
"What an awful creature," he once said to me, "that angel must have been
if it had anything to do with making Charlotte what she is.
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