majestic. o secure me because I ies, splendidly dressed. I seldom sale private conversation tered me, and laviss. All to admire imulated: my senses ed; and being ignorant, ra I loved ted t tic rivalries of society, t o its commission. ives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; s before I kne!—an agony of inempt masters me. I never loved, I never esteemed, I did not even knoence of one virtue in ure: I y, nor benevolence, nor candour, nor refinement in  I   let me remember to whom I am speaking.”

    “My bride’s motood sake; s up in a lunatic asylum. too—a complete dumb idiot. t e, erest akes in cer, and also in a dog-like attac ate one day. My fat t only of ty t against me.”

    “t except for treac, I s of reproaco my es obnoxious to me,  of mind common, loo anyto anyt I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single ; t kindly conversation could not be sustained betopic I started, immediately received from urn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—tled  inued outbreaks of  and unreasonable temper, or tions of radictory, exacting orders—even trained myself: I escailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed tipat.

    “Jane, I  trouble you ails: some strong  airs four years, and before t time sried me indeed: er ripened and developed ful rapidity;  and rank: trong, only cruelty could c use cruelty.  a pigmy intellect s giant propensities! ies entailed on me! Bertrue daug attend a man bound to a  once intemperate