This state of mind, added to exposure to a noonday sun, in an open vehicle, moving, for a mile, over a rugged pavement, was sufficient to destroy her.

I was not surprised to hear that she died the next day.
"This proceeding was sufficiently iniquitous; yet it was not the worst act of this man.

The rank and education of the young woman might be some apology for negligence; but his clerk, a youth who seemed to enjoy his confidence, and to be treated by his family on the footing of a brother or son, fell sick on the next night, and was treated in the same manner." These tidings struck me to the heart.

A burst of indignation and sorrow filled my eyes.

I could scarcely stifle my emotions sufficiently to ask, "Of whom, sir, do you speak?
Was the name of the youth--his name--was----" "His name was Wallace.