It is not improbable, however, that the new theory would have proved to be faulty, for I have often had occasion to remark that heirs (in remainder, for instance), manifest an hostility to the estate, by carrying out the principle of anticipation, rather than any of that prudent respect for social consequences to which the legislator looks with so much anxiety.
The letter of Anna was in the following words: "Good--nay, Dear JOHN: "Thy letter was put into my hands yesterday.

This is the fifth answer I have commenced, and you will therefore see that I do not write without reflection.

I know thy excellent heart, John, better than it is known to thyself.

It has either led thee to the discovery of a secret of the last importance to thy fellow-creatures, or it has led thee cruelly astray.
An experiment so noble and so praiseworthy ought not to be abandoned on account of a few momentary misgivings concerning the result.

Do not stay thy eagle flight at the instant thou art soaring so near the sun! Should we both judge it for our mutual happiness, I can become thy wife at a future day.