Mertonsville Park Author:Woodward General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. CALLED TO BE SAINTS. "True happiness hath no localities, No tones provincial, no peculiar gait: Where duty goes, she goes; where justice goes, she goes ; And goes with meekness, charity, and love." Towards the end of the summer the Seymours went to spend a few weeks at the fashionable watering-place of B . While there, they were the guests of Mr. Seymour's brother-in-law, General Clare, whose wife had died many years before, leaving him one child -- a daughter, on whom he lavished the tenderest and most devoted affection, and who was in his eyes all that the most fastidious father could desire -- the very personification of goodness and beauty. When at length this daughter married, and left the parental roof, General Clare felt as if he had suddenly been bereft of everything which made life dear to him ; but he was destined to experience a far keener pang of anguish than any that could be occasioned by a merely temporary separation ; for, after two years of wedded happiness, Mrs. Grafton was seized with a malignant fever which in a few days terminated fatally. Six months later her husband was killed by a fall from his horse; and then, rousing himself from the state of stupefaction into which intense grief had plunged him, General Clare began to take an interest in his orphaned grandson, who -- as yet too young to realize the double loss he had so recently sustained -- was brought to the General's house, and treated from henceforth as his acknowledged heir. Unfortunately, the training he received was not calculated to prove beneficial to a child of Reginald Grafton's peculiar d...« less