"You may imagine," said he, pensively, "it is any thing rather than my inclination that carries me hence . . . . but I greatly fear 'tis the only prudent measure I can pursue."

"You can best judge by seeing her," said Ellis: "her situation is truly deplorable. Her faculties are all disordered; her very intellects, I fear, are shaken; and there is no misfortune, no horrour, which her desperation, if not softened, does not menace."

Harleigh now seemed awakened to sudden alarm, and deep concern; and Ellis painfully, with encreasing embarrassment, from encreasing consciousness, added, "You will do, I am sure, what is possible to snatch her from despair!" and then returned to the house: satisfied that her meaning was perfectly comprehended, by the excess of consternation into which it obviously cast Harleigh.