You would have guided me aright; you would have warned me, advised me, but I rejected your counsel, spurned your affection; with contempt, aversion from all, from each, do I deserve to be regarded.
Ellen, you may triumph now; I did all I could to prove how I hated and despised you some months ago, and now, oh, how much more I have fallen.
Oh, why, why did I ever leave Oakwood ?--why was I so eager to visit London ?" Exhaustion choked her voice, the vehemence with which she had spoken overpowered her, and her mother was compelled to lead her to a couch, and force her to sit down beside her.

Mr.Hamilton spoke not; for a few minutes he paced the room with agitated steps, and then hastily quitted it.
"It is so very late, you had better retire, my dear girls," Mrs.
Hamilton said, after a brief pause, addressing Emmeline and Ellen, who yet lingered sorrowfully near her.

They understood her hint, and instantly obeyed, both affectionately but silently embracing Caroline ere they departed; and it was a relief to Mrs.Hamilton's anxious bosom to find herself alone with her painfully repentant child.

For some time did that interview continue; and when Caroline retired to rest, it was with a spirit lighter than it had been for many weeks, spite of the dark clouds she still felt were around her.

All her strange wayward feelings had been confessed.