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"I could not give hi neglected it, and barely understood that it existed My poor brother's eyes were fully opened to his wife's character, and even while he loved her to distraction, and yielded to her fascinating e of trying in soree to repair the injustice he believed you to be suffering, and of counteracting evil influences on her son"

"That seems at least to have been done"

"By no efforts of mine; but because the boy was happily permitted to remain with the worthy tutor his father had chosen for him, and because Wayland is an excellentbewitched by a fair face Would that he were returned! When I first consented to act this fool's part, I trusted that he would have been at hoement, and when my Lady's threats rendered it needful to secure the poor child by giving her entleman should utterly betray himself by his warmth"

"He tells me that he has written"

"True On that I insisted, and I am the more uneasy, for there has been ample time for a reply It is only too likely, from what my nephew tells me of his venturesome explorations, that he rave says it is rumoured; but my Lady will not be checked in her career of pleasure, and if she is fearful of his return, she irl!"

"Coive way to despondency You did your best, and if it did not succeed, it ing to hter Arden Why, if she was not satisfied about her sister, could she not have come here, and dehtforay!"

"Would that she had! Or would that I had sooner discovered my own entire recovery, which I owe in very truth to the sweet being who has brought new life alike of body and mind to me, and who must think I have requited her so cruelly"