Created world! how I and mine have been deceived and imposed upon! Away with him--a thousand leagues away with him! And that quickly too! Oh, the plausible, deceitful villain! My child! my child!" and here the old man burst into tears of the bitterest indignation.

"Sir Robert, that cursed villain was born, I fear, to be the shame and destruction of my house and name." "Don't dream of such a thing," said the baronet.

"On the day he dined here--and you cannot forget my strong disinclination to meet him--but even on that day you will recollect the treasonable language he used against the laws of the realm.

After my return home I took a note of them, and I trust that you, sir, will corroborate, with respect to this fact, the testimony which it is my purpose to give against him.

I say this the rather, Mr.Folliard, because it might seriously compromise your own character with the Government, and as a magistrate, too, to hear treasonable and seditious language at your own table, from a Papist Jesuit, and yet decline to report it to the authorities." "The laws, the authorities, and you be hanged, sir!" replied the squire; "my table is, and has been, and ever shall be, the altar of confidence to my guests; I shall never violate the laws of hospitality.