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 "He said he was innocent (exclaimed she), and to doubt his truth were impious; what then have I to fear from the threats of D'Alembert?"

But the calm produced by this idea was of short duration. Though assured of his innocence relative to Lord Philippe, she recollected she had never received an assurance of his being equally guiltless with regard to every other being: she recollected also the words of her departed friend, that the characters of his life were marked by horror, and stained with blood; and she shuddered at the too probable supposition of his having been involved in some deed as dreadful as that which she at first suspected—a deed with which it was evident D'Alembert was too well acquainted.

"Oh, let me then no longer hesitate how to act (exclaimed she),—let me no longer delay devoting myself to save my father! and yet (continued she, after the re-