But I had no moral pretentions, and it was too much to expect that I should rebuke the young woman and preach her a sermon.

You admit that, I dare say ?' The mathematician, frowning uncomfortably, gave a nod of assent.
'Amy was not only a reprobate, but a rascal.

She betrayed me to the people at Upchurch, and, I am quite sure, meant from the first to do so.

Imagine the outcry.

I had committed a monstrous crime--had led astray an innocent maiden, had outraged hospitality--and so on.