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of the first water/' well known among the gen- 

 tlemen learned in the law and about the Inns of 

 Court in London, and who, among other appoint- 

 ments and occupations, had once filled that of 

 "a Judge's Associate," or some other confidential 

 employment which brought him into personal 

 communication with one of our " highest legal 

 functionaries." They inquired of the Duke of 

 Devonshire's agent of that day who this elderly 

 lady and her strikingly handsome daughter were, 

 and exposed the scoundrel who was in their 

 company. 



This unhappy affair produced too strong an 

 effect on her wounded feelings and on her mind ; 

 and the shock of such a discovery, and blighting 

 of her future hopes and happiness, she was un- 

 able to bear, and it brought on decline and its 

 fatal consequences. 



The head of the other branch of this family 

 was George Bower, the uncle of Sarah Bower's 

 father, John Bower, who married Ellen Andrew, 

 the sole heiress of a wealthy landowner of, that 

 name, in the hamlet of Thornsett, which branch 



