I speak freely." "And I thank you for doing so.

Oh! never conceal from me your inmost thoughts.

You say that you can see as well as feel that I am right ?" "Yes; I freely acknowledge that." "Your reason approves what I have said ?" "Fully." "This tells you that it will be better for you in the end to accept of four hundred dollars from Mr.Melleville, than to remain with Mr.
Jasper at six hundred and fifty ?" "It does, Edith." "Then, my husband, let the reason which God has given to you as a guide, direct you now in the right way.

Do not act under influence from me--for then the act will not be freely your own--but, as a truly rational, and, therefore, a wise man, choose now the way in which an enlightened reason tells you that you ought to walk." "I have chosen, Edith," was the young man's low, but firm reply.
"How ?" The wife spoke with a sudden, trembling eagerness, and held her breath for an answer.
"I will leave my present place, and return to Mr.Melleville." "God be thanked!" came sobbing from the lips of Edith, as she threw herself in unrestrained joy upon the bosom of her husband..