Now I call upon you to confer upon me the highest obligation in your power.

Permit Mrs.Baynton to have the management of your brother's house for two or three days; then it shall be yours to act in it as you please.

No matter what are my motives in making this request: perhaps I think your age, your sex, or the distress which this disaster must occasion, incapacitates you for the office.

Surely you have no doubt of Mrs.
Baynton's tenderness or discretion." New ideas now rushed into my mind.
I fixed my eyes stedfastly on Mr.Hallet.

"Are they well ?" said I."Is Louisa well?
Are Benjamin, and William, and Constantine, and Little Clara, are they safe?
Tell me truly, I beseech you!" "They are well," he replied; "they are perfectly safe." "Fear no effeminate weakness in me: I can bear to hear the truth.