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 grief; for the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents. "Oh let me not be sent from hence in disgrace," said the weeping girl; "drive me not to the commission of crime.—I am yet innocent.—Pardon a first offence." "Talk not of innocence," said Lady Margaret, sternly: "those guilty looks betray you.—Your nocturnal rambles, your daily visits to the western cliff, your altered manner,—all have been observed by me and Buchanan—"Oh say not, at least, that he accuses me. Whatever my crime, I am guiltless, at least, towards him." "Guiltless or not,you must quit our family immediately; and to-morrow, at an early hour, see that you are prepared."

It was to Sir Everard's house that Alice was conveyed. There were many reasons which rendered this abode more convenient to Lady Margaret than any other. The Doctor was timid and subservient, and Count Gondimar was al