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Rh but at the same time must freely tell you, that there is but one way of redressing the injury you have done her, and which is by ceasing to live with her; by sending her back to the country, and restoring her to the simple manners to which she has been accustomed; and by so doing, her lost honour may not be altogether irrecoverable, or without resource."

"In what an abyss of misery am I plunged!", again ejaculated De Brooke. "Powers of mercy! what a mistake, what a fatal mistake, you have laboured under, sir!"

Endeavouring to allay the disorder of his mind, he thenwith breathless energy entered into a brief detail of every circumstance relating to his marriage, the parentage of his wife; and glowing with enthusiasm by the retrospect of scenes dear to his memory, the personal and mental graces of Angelina coming so enhanced to him by the charms of her innocence and virtue, still he would have expatiated upon her perfections, had he not been checked in his utterance by the aspect of Sir Aubrey, who, proud, indignant, lowering, paced with hasty strides his chamber; till, abruptly stopping before his unhappy son, and fixing his enraged and penetrating eyes upon him, a torrent of invective seemed ready to burst from his