I am not conscious of having done anything unbecoming a gentleman, that could or ought to deprive me of a privilege which I looked upon as an honor." "Well, then," replied her father, "look into your own conscience, and perhaps you will find the necessary explanation there.

I am master of my own house and my own motions, and now I beg you instantly to withdraw, and to consider this your last visit here." "May I not be permitted to call to-morrow to inquire after Miss Goodwin's health ?" "Assuredly not." "Nor to send a messenger ?" "By no means; and now, sir, withdraw; I must go in to my daughter, till I see what can be done for her, or whether anything can or not." Harry Woodward looked upon him steadily for a time, and the old man felt as if his very strength was becoming relaxed; a sense of faintness and terror came over him, and, as Woodward took his departure in silence, the father of Alice began to abandon all hopes of her recovery.

He himself felt the effects of the mysterious gaze which Woodward had fastened on him, and entered the room, conscious of the fatal power of the Evil Eye.
Fit after fit succeeded each other for the space of, at least, an hour and a half, after which they ceased, but left her in such a state of weakness and terror that she might be said, at that moment, to hover between life and death.

She was carried in her distracted father's arms to bed, and after they had composed her as well as they could, her father said,-- "My darling child, you may now summon strength and courage; that man, that bad man, will never come under this roof again.

I have finally settled the point, and you have nothing further now, nor anything worse, to dread from him.