Of course I came to him on the very next day; though not with my wife and
children, who were in truth absent in the country at Rosebury, where they
were to pass the Christmas holidays; and where, this school-dinner over,
I was to join them. On my second visit to Grey Friars my good friend
entered more at length into the reasons why he had assumed the Poor
Brother's gown; and I cannot say but that I acquiesced in his reasons,
and admired that noble humility and contentedness of which he gave me an
example.
"That which had caused him most grief and pain," he said, "in the issue
of that unfortunate bank, was the thought that poor friends of his had
been induced by his representations to invest their little capital in
that speculation. Good Miss Honeyman, for instance, meaning no harm, and
in all respects a most honest and kindly-disposed old lady, had
nevertheless alluded more than once to the fact that her money had been
thrown away; and these allusions, sir, made her hospitality somewhat hard
to bear," said the Colonel.
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