Here arise circumstances which are enough to induce any man to leave a particular place.

Then a friend, in whose single-mindedness and judgment I know I can rely, advises the step, and immediately upon the back of that comes a fair and candid offer." There was an apparent connexion between all these circumstances which much puzzled Henry.

He walked to and fro for nearly an hour, until he heard a hasty footstep approaching him, and upon looking in the direction from whence it came, he saw Mr.Marchdale.
"I will seek Marchdale's advice," he said, "upon this matter.

I will hear what he says concerning it." "Henry," said Marchdale, when he came sufficiently near to him for conversation, "why do you remain here alone ?" "I have received a communication from our neighbour, Sir Francis Varney," said Henry.
"Indeed!" "It is here.

Peruse it for yourself, and then tell me, Marchdale, candidly what you think of it." "I suppose," said Marchdale, as he opened the letter, "it is another friendly note of condolence on the state of your domestic affairs, which, I grieve to say, from the prattling of domestics, whose tongues it is quite impossible to silence, have become food for gossip all over the neighbouring villages and estates." "If anything could add another pang to those I have already been made to suffer," said Henry, "it would certainly arise from being made the food of vulgar gossip.