I will not apologize for taking my departure, for I feel that I have been too long here." _Cooleen Bawn_ arose in deep agitation.

"Dear papa, what is this ?" she exclaimed.

"What can be the cause of it?
Why forget the laws of hospitality?
Why, above all things, deliberately insult the man to whom you and I both owe so much?
Oh, I cannot understand it.

Some demon, equally cowardly and malignant, must have poisoned your own naturally generous mind.

Some villain, equally profligate and hypocritical, has, for some dark purpose, given this unworthy bias to your mind." "You know nothing of it, Helen.