Mayhap you thought I was no better 'an a brute: but I bear you no malice, and I will show you that I am more kind-hearted 'an you have been willing to think.

It is a strange sort of a vagary you have taken, to stand in your own light, and disoblige all your friends.

But if you are resolute, do you see?
I scorn to be the husband of a lass that is not every bit as willing as I; and so I will even help to put you in a condition to follow your own inclinations." Emily listened to these suggestions at first with eagerness and approbation.

But her fervency somewhat abated, when they came to discuss the minute parts of the undertaking.

It was necessary, as Grimes informed her, that her escape should be effected in the dead of the night.