"You will not only ruin yourself, but all your family, if this fearful step be taken.

Hitherto we have had right on our side, but henceforth we shall be more culpable than the others." "I am resolved upon the course," cried Lady Lake; "and all your arguments--all your warnings will not dissuade me from it, so you may spare your breath, Sir Thomas.

As you see, I have omitted the charge of witchcraft, and have only made the Countess confess her criminality with Lord Roos, and of this we have had abundant proofs; nay, we should have them still, if those condemnatory letters of hers, which had come into our possession, had not been stolen.

That mischance necessitates the present measure.

Having managed to deprive us of our weapons, Lord Roos thinks himself secure.