her husband's
infidelity vanishing at the idea of the indignity put upon him; there
was a rebellion in our house at Castlewood. A quarrel took place between
me and my mother, as I took my man's side. Hal and Fanny sided with her,
on the contrary; and in so far the difference did good, as it brought
about some little intimacy between Madam and her younger children.
This little difference was speedily healed; but it was clear that
the Standard of Insurrection must be removed out of our house; and we
determined that Mr. Gumbo and his lady should return to Europe.

My wife and I would willingly have gone with them, God wot, for our
boy sickened and lost his strength, and caught the fever in our swampy
country; but at this time she was expecting to lie in (of our son
Henry), and she knew, too, that I had promised to stay in Virginia. It
was agreed that we should send the two back; but when I offered Theo to
go, she said her place was with her husband;--her father and Hetty at
home would take care of our children; and she scarce would allow me to
see a tear in her eyes whilst she was making her preparations for the
departure of her little ones. Dost thou remember the time, madam, and
the silence round the worktables, as the piles of little shirts are made
ready for the voyage? and the stealthy visits to the children's chambers
whilst they are asleep and yet with you? and the terrible time of
parting, as our barge with the servants and children rows to the ship,
and you stand on the shore? Had the Prince of Wales been going on that
voyage, he could not have been better provided. Where, sirrah, is the
Tompion watch your grandmother gave you? and how did you survive the
boxes of cakes which the good lady stowed away in your cabin?

The ship which took out my poor Theo's children, returned with the
Reverend Mr. Hagan and my Lady Maria on board, who meekly chose to
resign her rank, and was known in the colony (which was not to be a
colony very long) only as Mrs. Hagan. At the time when I was in favour
with my Lord Dunmore, a living falling vacant in Westmoreland county, he
gave it to our kinsman, who arrived in Virginia time enough to christen
our boy Henry, and to preach some sermons on the then gloomy state of
affairs, which Madam Esmond pronounced to be prodigious fine. I think my
Lady Maria won Madam's heart by insisting on going out of the room after
her. "My father, your brother, was an earl, 'tis true," says she, "but
you