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Sam is fortunate to have two clever friends, Gilbert Goldwire and Walter Chamlet, who work up a plot to resolve Sam's predicament. Sam tells his father that he has impregnated Annabelle; and Touchwood, delighted at the scandal impending over the Striker household, sends his son abroad — or so he thinks; in fact Sam remains in London to carry out his plans. Annabelle's mother was Striker's daughter, now deceased; her father is Sir Hugh Moneylack, a down-and-out gentleman who survives by shady means. Striker is hostile to his son-in-law, and keeps Annabelle, his granddaughter and heir, from seeing her father.
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On account of his health he afterwards undertook a walking tour in Switzerland and the adjoining portions of France, Swabia and Tirol, visiting the hamlets and farmhouses, mingling in the labors and occupations of the peasants and mechanics, and partaking of their rude fare and lodging. After the downfall of Robespierre, he went to Paris and remained there long enough to be assured of the storm impending over his native country. This he did his best to avert, but his warnings were disregarded, and Switzerland was lost before any efficient means could be taken for its safety. Fellenberg, who had hastily raised a levy en masse, was proscribed; a price was set upon his head, and he was compelled to flee into Germany.
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The next day the Cabinet met and the Duke of Portland advised that Fitzwilliam be recalled. He wrote to Fitzwilliam on 20 February that recalling him: > ...was the most painful task I ever undertook; [but it was] my opinion, and > I call it mine, because I chose to be the first to give it, and I was, I > believe, the only member of the Cabinet who gave it decidedly, that the true > interest of government...requires that you should not continue to administer > that of Ireland. ... There appears such a concurrence in the views, such a > deference to the suggestions and wishes, and such an acquiescence in the > prejudices of Grattan and the Ponsonbys that there seems to me no other way > of rescuing you and English government from the annihilation which is > impending over it. ...the inordinate desire of George Ponsonby [is your > downfall].
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