I own myself mistaken.
I think, sometimes, I must have been mad, I cannot tell you precisely what took me to prison.

Will you believe me that it was for a woman's sake ?" "I knew it!" she interrupted.
"It was to screen a woman's folly," he continued.

"And, indeed, wrong as I was, I believed myself to be doing a most chivalrous deed." "It is a great pity, Basil," said Lady Carruthers.
"Yes," he said, quietly; "but I was a woman's dupe, and I have suffered enough.

It was one false step, but I shall spend my life in trying to redeem it." He kept his word.

In four years' time the name of Basil Carruthers rang through the land with a pleasant sound; he had, indeed, found something to do.
He was returned for the borough of Rutsford, and his fame as an able an eloquent orator spread over the country.
Then he studied to become a model landlord; he built large, airy cottages and schools; he paid the attention that every landlord ought to pay that the land be well drained, well cultivated.