She will suffer anything, risk anything, believe anything, to be freed from that one haunting doubt.

Lady Janet predicts a social triumph; and my wife's despair--not my wife's conviction--accepts the prophecy.

As for me, I am prepared for the result.

It will end in our going to the New World, and trying Society in its infancy, among the forests and the plains.

I shall quietly prepare for our departure, and own what I have done at the right time--that is to say, when the ball is over." FOURTH EXTRACT.
"I have met with the man for my purpose--an old college friend of mine, now partner in a firm of ship-owners, largely concerned in emigration.
"One of their vessels sails for America, from the port of London, in a fortnight, touching at Plymouth.