So great is my confidence in his integrity that I will not promise my esteem to one who has irrecoverably lost that of Wortley.

I am not acquainted with your motives to concealment, or what it is you conceal; but take the word of one who possesses that experience which you complain of wanting, that sincerity is always safest." As soon as he had retired, my curiosity prompted me to pay an immediate visit to Wortley.

I found him at home.

He was no less desirous of an interview, and answered my inquiries with as much eagerness as they were made.
"You know," said he, "my disastrous connection with Thomas Welbeck.

You recollect his sudden disappearance last July, by which I was reduced to the brink of ruin.