"What she denied herself, she did not refuse me; and though I have necessarily many and great deficiencies, you will find in me, I trust, no evil principles.

And, oh! shall we not strive to rescue that poor benighted creature from the pit?
We may yet save her." "It is too late," replied Mistress Nutter in a sombre tone.
"It cannot be too late," said Alizon, confidently.

"She cannot be beyond redemption.

But even if she should prove intractable, poor little Jennet may be preserved.

She is yet a child, with some good--though, alas! much evil, also--in her nature.