text:  For he felt himself unworthy to press her helpless hand to his lips or remove the cambric from her face but called in broken accents upon the name of Mary! his child! his darling! addressing her rather with the fondling terms bestowed upon girlhood than as a woman--a wife--a mother! "But a more affecting story still " said the old woman "was to see that Mr Everard took no more heed of the General's sudden entrance than though it were a thing to be looked for