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 me she was once almost frightened to death, from fancying she had a glimpse of them near the church-yard; and the servants in the house that was rebuilt, have often been almost scared out of their senses, by the noises they have heard within it.

"Thus (continued Floretta) my story proves the truth of what we were saying, namely, that an evil conscience has often occasioned the discovery of foul crimes. It was owing to it that the stranger imagined the falling of the skeleton not an accidental circumstance, but one immediately ordered by Heaven, and from that idea did he betray himself."

"True (cried Agatha, who had listened with deep attention, and great delight), 'tis an old saying, and a just one, that a guilty conscience needs no accuser.

"Lord! if people were to allow themselves a little time to consider, half the bad actions that are committed would be left undone; for they would then reflect, that neither riches nor titles can make amends