You may imagine what I felt and how I acted.

Regard for my sister's credit and feelings prevented any public exposure; but I wrote to Mr.Wickham, who left the place immediately, and Mrs.Younge was of course removed from her charge.

Mr.
Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.

His revenge would have been complete indeed.
"This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards Mr.
Wickham.

I know not in what manner, under what form of falsehood he had imposed on you; but his success is not perhaps to be wondered at.