She caught at no object in her quick descent, for none tempted her hand.
It was one swift plunge, and the shock was over.
"No, father," she said, in a calmer voice, lifting her face from his bosom--"it is not pride, nor womanly indignation at a deep wrong.

I speak of him as he is now known to me.

Oh, beware of him! Let not his shadow fall darker on our household." The effect of this conversation in no way quieted the apprehensions of Mr.Markland, but made his anxieties the deeper.

That Lyon had been false to his child was clear even to him; and the searching questions of Fanny he could not banish from his thoughts.
"All things confirm the necessity of my journey," he said, when alone, and in close debate with himself on the subject.

"I fear that I am in the toils of a serpent, and that escape, even with life, is doubtful.