. The life of Mrs. Norton. (>r husbands house for lu-r sisters,with the avowed intention, sup[)orted by all herfamily, of never going back to him. She dates thisde|)artuie vaguc^ly as some tinu; in the early whatever had i)een George Nortons treatment ofher to drive her to such a step, the taking of it evidentlybrought him to his senses again. He besieged herwith lettcn-s, imploring hcv to return to him. himself before her, declaring himself utterly inthe wrong, and n;ady to make every amends in hispower, if she would only have mercy and ai)peal had its usua
. The life of Mrs. Norton. (>r husbands house for lu-r sisters,with the avowed intention, sup[)orted by all herfamily, of never going back to him. She dates thisde|)artuie vaguc^ly as some tinu; in the early whatever had i)een George Nortons treatment ofher to drive her to such a step, the taking of it evidentlybrought him to his senses again. He besieged herwith lettcn-s, imploring hcv to return to him. himself before her, declaring himself utterly inthe wrong, and n;ady to make every amends in hispower, if she would only have mercy and ai)peal had its usual vWcrl upon her. She hadmercy, she forgave him. Against the advice of nearlyevery friend she had, she went back to him, and neverwas woman more bitterly i)unished than she for theunwise generosity of that decision. Till that moment she had known very little of herhusbands pcn^uniary resources except how much sheherself had contributed to llum; but on her return,with a view i)erhai)s of urging her to further eflorts ^>-. I (,v^.-v_A^ 7 WTrrv. 0C I). 1<A 1835] MONEY MATTERS 77 in his behalf, he took her, to a certain extent, intohis confidence in this matter. For some time, indeed,he had been in desperate straits for money—suchstraits, that he seems to have grown indifferent to themeans by which he might relieve them. For instance,one of the reasons he advanced to engage his wifespatience towards his kinswoman. Miss MargaretVaughan, whose interference in his household hadalready excited her resentment, was that he hoped toget some pecuniary advantage from this lady, bothbefore and after her death. Mrs. Norton discovered,to her astonishment, that even in drawing up her ownmarriage settlement there had been some deception orconcealment, and that he or his lawyers or his elderbrother, who was his trustee, had also deceived hermother in the amount of the portion accruing to theyounger brothers and sisters of Lord Grantley; con-sequently he (George Norton) had never pos
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