Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344
"MY DEAR MISS GARTH--More sorrow, more disappointment! I have just
returned from Aldborough, without making any discovery. Magdalen is
still lost to us.
"I cannot attribute this new overthrow of my hopes to any want of
perseverance or penetration in making the necessary inquiries. My
inexperience in such matters was most kindly and unexpectedly assisted
by Mr. George Bartram. By a strange coincidence, he happened to be at
Aldborough, inquiring after Mr. Noel Vanstone, at the very time when I
was there inquiring aft er Magdalen. He sent in his card, and knowing,
when I looked at the name, that he was
