Lucius Davoren, Volume III by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Once assured that there was no blot upon Lucille's parentage, Lucius had no longer any motive for withholding the result of his researches from her whom they most nearly concerned. He spent his evening at Cedar House, as usual, on the day of his interview with Mr. Pullman; and after tea, when Mr. Sivewright had retired, seized the opportunity to show Lucille the little packet of letters, and to relate his adventures at Rouen and in Paris. Lucille wept many tears as that story of the past was slowly unfolded to her-wept for the sorrows of the mother she vaguely remembered watching like a guardian angel beside her little bed.

‘Dear mother! and to think that in your brief life there was so much sorrow! ' she said mournfully.