I have a daughter,"-- Willie flushed and started forward;--"I asked you when I began this recital, if you had counted all the consequences.

You know my story; you see with what fate you link yours; reflect! Francesca carries no mark of her birth; her father or brother could not come inside her home without shocking society by the scandal, were not the story earlier known.

The man whom you struck down this morning is one of our neighbors; you saw and heard his brutal assault: are you ready to face more of the like kind?
Better than you I know what sentence will be passed upon you,--what measure awarded.

It is for your own sake I say these things; consider them.

I have finished." Surrey had made to speak a half score of times, and as often checked himself,--partly that he should not interrupt his companion; partly that he might be master of his emotions, and say what he had to utter without heat or excitement.
"Mr.Ercildoune," he now said, "listen to me.