Pray don't think me a heartless woman.

My worst fault was ignorance.

In those days, I knew nothing of the false pretenses under which men hide what is selfish and savage in their natures from the women whom it is their interest to deceive.
No.

2 .-- Julius Bender, fencing-master, testifies and says:-- I am of German nationality; established in England as teacher of the use of the sword and the pistol since the beginning of the present year.
Finding business slack in London, it unfortunately occurred to me to try what I could do in the country.

I had heard of Maplesworth as a place largely frequented by visitors on account of the scenery, as well as by invalids in need of taking the waters; and I opened a gallery there at the beginning of the season of 1817, for fencing and pistol practice.
About the visitors I had not been deceived; there were plenty of idle young gentlemen among them who might have been expected to patronize my establishment.