But for the providential circumstance of my seeing you in the carriage with him, all would have been lost.

Surely, you could not have felt for him the least affection." "Oh, uncle! you can never know what a fearful trial I have passed through.

Affection! It was, instead, an intense repugnance.

But, for my mother's sake, I was prepared to make any sacrifice consistent with honour." "Of all others, my dear child," said Mr.Ellis, with much feeling, "a sacrifice of this kind is the worst.

It is full of evil consequences that cannot be enumerated, and scarcely imagined.