Tell them, sir, that I'll see them d----d first! Swindling scoundrel!--first cheats me out of a thousand pounds, and then tries to cheat me into providing for his family!" Newton paused a little, to allow the colonel's wrath to subside, and then observed--"I never was so much distressed as to be the bearer of your message.

The young ladies are certainly no parties to their father's dishonesty, and are in a situation much to be pitied.

In a foreign country, thousands of miles from their friends, without means of subsistence, or of paying their passage home.

What is to become of them ?" "I don't care." "That your indignation is just, Colonel Revel, I admit; but allowing that you will not receive them, how are they to return home?
Captain Drawlock, I am sure, would give them a passage; but we proceed to China.

Poor girls!" continued Newton, with a sigh.