I will, at least, thank God that you are not the wife of a man whose violent passions, even as a child, could not be controlled, and who is destitute of a spark of religious principle.

I will now read you what Cousin Janet says.
"'I have received a long letter from Mr.C., the Episcopal clergyman in Richmond, in answer to mine, inquiring of Walter.

All that I feared is true.

Walter is not only gay, but dissipated.

Mr.
C.says he has called to see him repeatedly, and invited him to his house, and has done all that he could to interest him in those pleasures that are innocent and ennobling; but, alas! it is difficult to lay aside the wine cup, when its intoxicating touch is familiar to the lips, and so of the other forbidden pleasures of life.