You have never rested in your endeavours to obtain both, and therefore, that such should be your recompense is sad indeed.

I sympathise with you, my dearest friend," she continued, in a tone of much more feeling than she ever allowed to be visible.

"In the tale of shame I am repeating, I am inflicting misery upon you, I feel I am; and yet, in resigning my charge, I must do my duty, and set you on your guard, and let this one reflection be your comfort, that it was the recollection of your untiring care, your constant affection, which checked this infatuated girl in her career of error, and bade her pause ere it was too late.

For her sufferings I have little pity; she is no longer the character I believed her.

Neither integrity, honour, nor candour can be any longer inmates of her heart; the confession I have heard this night has betrayed a lengthened scheme of deception, to which, had I heard it of her, I should have given no credence.