from a fear of your interrupting the Diabolicalscheme? — Do you think me destitute of everyhonest, every natural feeling? — Am I capable ofconsigning her to everlasting Misery, whose wel::fare it is my first Earthly Duty to promote?" —

"The idea is horrible. — What then was yourintention when you insisted on her silence?" —

"Of what use my dear Sister, could be any application to you, however the affair might stand? Why should I subject you to entreaties, which Irefused to attend to myself? — Neither for your sake, for hers, nor for my own, could such a thingbe desireable. — Where my own resolution was taken, I could not wish for the interference, how::ever friendly, of another person. — I was mistakenit is true, but I beleived myself to be right." —

"But what was this mistake, to which your Ladyship so often alludes? From whence arose