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The grasp had slipped away Bound by a pledge given from the depths of

her pity, she would have been capable of undertaking a toil which her

judgment whispered was vain for all uses except that consecration of

faithfulness which is a supre controlled by duteous devotion, wasdiscovery that in her past union there had lurked the

hidden alienation of secrecy and suspicion The living, suffering er before her to awaken her pity: there remained only the

retrospect of painful subjection to a husband whose thoughts had been

lower than she had believed, whose exorbitant claims for himself had

even blinded his scrupulous care for his own character, andn of that broken tie, she would have been

glad to be free froinal fortune

which had been settled on her, if there had not been duties attached to

ownership, which she ought not to flinch from About this property

: had she not been right in

thinking that the half of it ought to go to Will Ladislaw?--but was it

not impossible now for her to do that act of justice? Mr Casaubon had

taken a cruelly effective ainst hi of

his purpose revolted her