In the sneering tone which was common with him, he said, 'The world will believe me, and it will not believe you.

The world has made up its mind that "By" is a glorious boy; and the world will go for "By," right or wrong.

Besides, I shall make it my life's object to discredit you: I shall use all my powers.

Read "Caleb Williams," {161} and you will see that I shall do by you just as Falkland did by Caleb.' I said that all this seemed to me like insanity.

She said that she was for a time led to think that it was insanity, and excused and pitied him; that his treatment of her expressed such hatred and malignity, that she knew not what else to think of it; that he seemed resolved to drive her out of the house at all hazards, and threatened her, if she should remain, in a way to alarm the heart of any woman: yet, thinking him insane, she left him at last with the sorrow with which anyone might leave a dear friend whose reason was wholly overthrown, and to whom in this desolation she was no longer permitted to minister.
I inquired in one of the pauses of the conversation whether Mrs.Leigh was a peculiarly beautiful or attractive woman.
'No, my dear: she was plain.' 'Was she, then, distinguished for genius or talent of any kind ?' 'Oh, no! Poor woman! she was weak, relatively to him, and wholly under his control.' 'And what became of her ?' I said.
'She afterwards repented, and became a truly good woman.' I think it was here she mentioned that she had frequently seen and conversed with Mrs.
Leigh in the latter part of her life; and she seemed to derive comfort from the recollection.
I asked, 'Was there a child ?' I had been told by Mrs .-- -- that there was a daughter, who had lived some years.
She said there was one, a daughter, who made her friends much trouble, being of a very difficult nature to manage.