Even the Pythagorean relished the proposal, for although peculiar in his opinions, he was sufficiently liberal, and too much of a gentleman, to quarrel with those who differed from him.

Mr.Goodwin, too, was a consenting party, and mentioned the subject to Alice in a cheerful spirit, and with a hope that she might be able to rally and attend it.
She promised to do so if she could; but said it chiefly depended on the state of health in which she might find herself.

Indeed, if ever a beautiful and interesting girl was to be pitied, she, most unquestionably, was an object of the deepest compassion.
It was not merely what she had to suffer from the Evil Eye of the demon Woodward, but from the fact which had reached her ears of what she considered the profligate conduct of his brother Charles, once her betrothed lover.

This latter reflection, associated with the probability of his death, when joined to the terrible malady which Woodward had inflicted on her, may enable our readers to perceive what the poor girl had to suffer.

Still she told her father that she would be present if her health permitted her, "especially," she added, "as there was no possibility of Woodward being among the guests." "Why, my dear child," said her father, "what could put such an absurd apprehension into your head ?" "Because, papa, I don't think he will ever let me out of his power until he kills me.