After her birth, her father had bought a place in Bangor, Wales, which
he called Stoneleigh, and there her two brothers, Hugh and John, were
born, and her parents had died.
She had come alone to Allington, when comparatively young, and, settling
down quietly, had for a time watched closely the habits of the people
around her, and posted herself thoroughly with regard to the workings
and institutions of a Republic, and then she adopted them heartily, and
became an out-and-out American, and only lamented that she could not
vote and take part in the politics of the country. Of her past life she
never spoke, and of her family seldom. Her father and mother were dead;
she had two brothers, both well enough in their way, but wholly unlike
each other, she had once told Lucy Grey, whom she had always liked, and
with whom she was more intimate than with any one else in Allington,
unless it were Hannah Jerrold. Although very proud of her family name
and family blood, she was no boaster, and no one in Allington would ever
have known that one of her brothers had been in Parliament, and that his
wife was a Lady Jane Trevellian, if chance had not thrown them in the
way of Mrs.
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