However, I have determined; I think I am right; I think you ought to be made acquainted with Mr Elliot's real character.

Though I fully believe that, at present, you have not the smallest intention of accepting him, there is no saying what may happen.

You might, some time or other, be differently affected towards him.

Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced.

Mr Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; whom for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character.