Read it yourself--and don't talk of it afterward." Mrs.Presty read: "I know nothing whatever of my unfortunate brother.

If you think this is a too-indulgent way of alluding to a man who has so shamefully wronged you, let my conviction that he is already beginning to suffer the penalty of his crime plead my excuse.

Herbert's nature is, in some respects, better known to me than it is to you.

I am persuaded that your hold on his respect and his devotion is shaken--not lost.

He has been misled by one of those passing fancies, disastrous and even criminal in their results, to which men are liable when they are led by no better influence than the influence of their senses.