THE shock received by Fanny left her in a feeble state of mind as well as body.

For two or three days she wept almost constantly.

Then a leaden calmness, bordering on stupor, ensued, that, even more than her tears, distressed her parents.
Meantime, the anxieties of Mr.Markland, in regard to the business in which he had ventured more than all his possessions, were hourly increasing.

Now that suspicion had been admitted into his thought, circumstances which had before given him encouragement bore a doubtful aspect.

He was astonished at his own blindness, and frightened at the position in which he found himself placed.
Altogether dissatisfied with the kind and amount of information to be gained in New York, his resolution to go South was strengthened daily.