John Caldigate

And yet it would have been much for both of them that such comfortable association should have been possible to them. Wherever the fault lay, or the chief fault-for probably there was some on both sides-the misfortune was so great as to bring crushing troubles upon each of them. There were but the two of which to make a household. When John was fifteen, and had been about a year at Harrow, he lost his mother and his two little sisters almost at a blow. The two girls went first, and the poor mother, who had kept herself alive to see them die, followed them almost instantly. Then Daniel Caldigate had been alone.