Thursday, midnight
Is he likely to recover ? `` In all things , my loved son , in which I can serve you , remember that I expect you will refer yourself to me as to a mother . Your own could hardly have regarded you with deeper tenderness than does your affectionate and faithful `` ADELIZA TINEMOUTH . '' `` GROSVENOR PLACE , '' _ Thursday , midnight . _ `` Direct to me at Harwold Place , Wolds , Lincolnshire . '' Several opposite emotions agitated the mind of Thaddeus whilst reading this epistle , -- increased abhorrence of the man whom he believed to be his father , and distress at the increase of his cruelty to his unhappy wife ! Yet these could neither subdue the balmy effect of her maternal affection towards himself nor wholly check the emotion which the unusual mentioning of Miss Beaufort 's name had caused his heart to throb .