imprudence I had been guilty of, in forming this too hasty connexion, perhaps deserved a punishment, but not from him. His behaviour had lifted me above myself, and conveyed more knowledge to my understanding in one hour, than from my little experience I had acquired in years. But to return.
I saw he impatiently and anxiously waited for my answer, as he took a turn or two about the room; whilst I was endeavouring to acquire composure, and some degree of dignity, which might cover him with confusion.—This at length was my reply, with as much calmness as I could assume.
"When I undertook this journey, Sir, it was with a faint hope that some one spark of virtue might inhabit your bosom, and that recollection had before now been my friend, to give you a just sense of your duty to me. I therefore gave you an opportunity to recall yourself to honour, and to do me justice.—No such spark of virtue lay dormant: I see all is treachery, deceit, and sordid interest.—Unhappily my weak mind and unguarded
