To entitle ourselves to this confidence we were willing to engage, in our turn, for the observance of secrecy, so far that no detriment should accrue from this disclosure to himself or his friend.
Next morning, at breakfast, our guest appeared with a countenance less expressive of embarrassment than on the last evening.

His attention was chiefly engaged by his own thoughts, and little was said till the breakfast was removed.

I then reminded him of the incidents of the former day, and mentioned that the uneasiness which thence arose to us had rather been increased than diminished by time.
"It is in your power, my young friend," continued I, "to add still more to this uneasiness, or to take it entirely away.

I had no personal acquaintance with Thomas Welbeck.

I have been informed by others that his character, for a certain period, was respectable, but that, at length, he contracted large debts, and, instead of paying them, absconded.