If you love me, do not allude to this subject again." "I'm sorry I mentioned it at all, since it distresses you," returned Winifred; "but, as I knew my father intended to propose to you, if poor Jack should be respited--" "_If_ he should be respited ?" repeated Mrs.Sheppard, with startling eagerness.

"Does your father doubt it?
Speak! tell me!" Winifred made no answer.
"Your hesitation convinces me he does," replied the widow.

"Is Thames returned from London ?" "Not yet," replied the other; "but I expect him every minute.

My father's chief fear, I must tell you, is from the baneful influence of Jonathan Wild." "That fiend is ever in my path," exclaimed Mrs.Sheppard, with a look, the wildness of which greatly alarmed her companion.

"I cannot scare him thence." "Hark!" cried Winifred, "Thames is arrived.