In a worse, I entered with him into measures calculated to restore our banished monarch, and the independence of my country.

He has taken advantage of my unguarded confidence, and now has my life at his disposal." "Your life, sir ?" said Isabella, faintly.
"Yes, Isabella," continued her father, "the life of him who gave life to you.

So soon as I foresaw the excesses into which his headlong passion (for, to do him justice, I believe his unreasonable conduct arises from excess of attachment to you) was likely to hurry him, I endeavoured, by finding a plausible pretext for your absence for some weeks, to extricate myself from the dilemma in which I am placed.

For this purpose I wished, in case your objections to the match continued insurmountable, to have sent you privately for a few months to the convent of your maternal aunt at Paris.

By a series of mistakes you have been brought from the place of secrecy and security which I had destined for your temporary abode.