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explain the deep effect which the few broken passages of the conversation we have detailed, made upon the unfortunate prisoner by whom they were over-heard, it is necessary to say something of his previous state of mind, and of the origin of his connection with Edith.

Henry Morton was one of those gifted characters which possess a force of talent unsuspected by the owner himself. He had inherited from his father an undaunted courage, and a firm and uncompromising detestation of oppression, whether in