He found the appearance of his old ascendancy; but he felt its deceitfulness and uncertainty, and was gloomily dissatisfied.
In his return from this assembly he was accompanied by a young man, whom similitude of manners had rendered one of his principal confidents, and whose road home was in part the same as his own.

One might have thought that Mr.Tyrrel had sufficiently vented his spleen in the dialogue he had just been holding.

But he was unable to dismiss from his recollection the anguish he had endured.

"Damn Falkland!" said he.

"What a pitiful scoundrel is here to make all this bustle about! But women and fools always will be fools; there is no help for that! Those that set them on have most to answer for; and most of all, Mr.Clare.He is a man that ought to know something of the world, and past being duped by gewgaws and tinsel.