vere was my mortification, and how cruel my disappointment, when I found my mistake; when vainly apologizing for it, I was treated as an abandoned wanton, and pursued with infolent profeffions, fuch as I never liftened to or heard before, and fuch as by a gentleman could be offered only to one whom he confidered as a prostitute."

Delmont, at this paffage of Medora's narrative, started up, traversed' the room with hafty step, and feemed to make every effort to conquer at leaft the appearance of the paffionate indignation this account of his brother's behaviour had raised in his bofom. Medora, frightened at his emotion, repented that she had used such strong terms, and refolved to pafs over as flightly as fhe could what remained to be told of Major Delmont ; yet it was impoffible altogether to dif guife, and indeed difficult to palliate the circumstances which had driven her away from the inn, and compelled her to

affume

affume a difguife in order to escape from this new purfuer. 24ora 2.5 "You should recollect," said the, as foon as Delmont became once more calm enough to listen to her, "you should recollect that your brother knew nothing of me, or that if he had ever heard me mentioned, it was probably in a way very much to my disadvantage. In short, my dear Delmont, there are perhaps excuses to be offered for his conduct, which do not, which are not likely indeed to occur to me, and which, among men, may greatly ferve to alter that fort of pro ceeding, which at the moment it oc curred impreffed me with fear. own Lown I did hope when I explained, or, at tempted to explain who I was, that I fhould have found protection from your brother; but I know not why, unless because he had received fome falfe impreffions from Mrs. Crewkherne as to my mother and myfelf, he feemed to dif believe, and to turn into ridicule all I faid,

and

and in a word, for I hate the fubject, I was fo much terrified, perhaps more fo than the occafion called for, by his manner, that I confidered my intention of going to London that night as impoffible to be executed, unless at the hazard of fubjecting myself to treatment and perfecution I was not able to think of without greater terror than any former circumftances had impreffed upon me. This indeed, Delmont, I do not wholly impute to your brother; his manner might feem to convey more than he intended. I had never seen a man of the world before, and what fhocked me as unwarrantable freedom, might be nothing but airs which fuch men affume without much meaning."

"Do not attempt to palliate his conduct, Medora," cried Delmont; "there is no palliation, no excufe; it was cruel, it was unmanly; it cannot, no by heavens! it cannot be forgiven."

"You will compel me, however," said Medora, "to falfify or ftifle the rest of VOL. IV.

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what I have to fay.

dear friend, fo unlike

Your violence my to wind B yourfelf, is almost

as painful to me as were your brother's hunffliating freedoms.

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had given me to read, in which men of met nsfw bas

fuch a defeription are reprefented as carJogin. I jeg begod rying off damfels, and involving them m very difagreeable adventures. Howe

that might be, whether my fears were

anuvisl them well or ill founded, I felt to be fuch as rendered my ftaying where I was, or attempting mpting to return alone in the ftage to London, impoffible; I therefore refolved, and perhaps with the ufual rafhnefs of fear, to escape from the inn, where I began to have doubts of every body, cbns and ym Bojong en 1. V and

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