'I was unwilling, my dear Emily,' said he, 'to throw a cloud over the pleasure you receive from these scenes, and meant, therefore, to conceal, for the present, some circumstances, with which, however, you must at length have been made acquainted.

But your anxiety has defeated my purpose; you suffer as much from this, perhaps, as you will do from a knowledge of the facts I have to relate.

M.Quesnel's visit proved an unhappy one to me; he came to tell me part of the news he has now confirmed.

You may have heard me mention a M.Motteville, of Paris, but you did not know that the chief of my personal property was invested in his hands.

I had great confidence in him, and I am yet willing to believe, that he is not wholly unworthy of my esteem.