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and that if frohts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new

and stainless store of recollections, to which you htly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this y"

"Sir?"

"I aood intentions, which I believe durable as flint

Certainly, my associates and pursuits shall be other than they have

been"

"And better?"

"And better--so much better as pure ore is than foul dross You

seem to doubt me; I don't doubt myself: I knohat my aim is, what

my motives are; and at this moment I pass a law, unalterable as that

of the Medes and Persians, that both are right"

"They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise

theh they absolutely require a new statute:

unheard-of combinations of circuerous maxim, sir; because one can see at once

that it is liable to abuse"

"Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by ods not

to abuse it"