With an only
son (the youth before us) then a mere boy, and no other family, Colonel
Ralph Colleton did not hesitate at such an exile. He had found out the
worthlessness of men's professions at a period not very remote from the
general knowledge of his loss of fortune: and having no other connection
claiming from him either countenance or support, and but a single
relative from whom separation might be painful, he felt, comparatively
speaking, but few of the privations usually following such a removal. An
elder brother, like himself a widower, with a single child, a daughter,
formed the whole of his kindred left behind him in Carolina; and, as
between the two brothers there had existed, at all times, some leading
dissimilar points of disposition and character, an occasional
correspondence, due rather to form than to affection, served all
necessary purposes in keeping up the sentiment of kindred in their
bosoms. There were but few real affinities which could bring them
together.
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