To say truth, I wished you to visit England, your native country; because, when you might do so, my rights over you would revive.' This speech fully led me to understand a caution which had been often impressed upon me, that, if I regarded my safety, I should not cross the southern Border; and I cursed my own folly, which kept me fluttering like a moth around the candle, until I was betrayed into the calamity with which I had dallied.

'What are those rights,' I said, 'which you claim over me?
To what end do you propose to turn them ?' 'To a weighty one, you may be certain,' answered Mr.Herries; 'but I do not, at present, mean to communicate to you either its nature or extent.
You may judge of its importance, when, in order entirely to possess myself of your person, I condescended to mix myself with the fellows who destroyed the fishing station of yon wretched Quaker.

That I held him in contempt, and was displeased at the greedy devices with which he ruined a manly sport, is true enough; but, unless as it favoured my designs on you, he might have, for me, maintained his stake-nets till Solway should cease to ebb and flow.' 'Alas!' I said, 'it doubles my regret to have been the unwilling cause of misfortune to an honest and friendly man.' 'Do not grieve for that,' said Herries; 'honest Joshua is one of those who, by dint of long prayers, can possess themselves of widow's houses--he will quickly repair his losses.

When he sustains any mishap, he and the other canters set it down as a debt against Heaven, and, by way of set-off, practise rogueries without compunction, till the they make the balance even, or incline it to the winning side.

Enough of this for the present .-- I must immediately shift my quarters; for, although I do not fear the over-zeal of Mr.Justice Foxley or his clerk will lead them to any extreme measure, yet that mad scoundrel's unhappy recognition of me may make it more serious for them to connive at me, and I must not put their patience to an over severe trial.