The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street. By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old. According to Mr. Kegan Paul, he was also left with a blighted existence. Let us see what Godwin did with his blighted existence in the years immediately following Mary Wollstonecraft’s death. For some time the infants in The Polygon, Somers Town, were cared for by Miss Louisa Jones, who would fain have become the step-mother of Mary Wollstonecraft’s legitimate child, and the tender guardian of Fanny. Miss Jones, however, was not allowed to settle herself for life in this manner; for though he saw the necessity of finding a mother for the children, the widower with a blighted existence did not think highly of Miss Louisa.