Chapter 94Jane Saxon was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates' youngest daughter.
The wedding of Leut. Saxon of the Infantry Regiment and Miss Jane Bates had had their day of glory and pleasure, hope and interest; but now there was nothing left but the melancholic memory of his death abroad – of his widow, who soon afterwards sank into vertigo and grief – and this girl.
From birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at the age of three, when she lost her mother, she became the property, the burden, the comfort, the foundling of her grandmother and aunt, it seemed very likely that she would be permanently fixed there; that she was taught only what very limited means could command, and that she grew up without benefits of connection or improvement to graft on what nature had given her in
