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(&emsp;389&emsp;) mons, that I was giving directions for my departure."

"Ah, no!" cried Ellis, "rather again defer it."

"You would have me again defer it?" he repeated, with a vivacity he tried still more, though vainly, to subdue than to disguise.

The word again did not make the cheeks of Ellis paler; but she answered, with eagerness, "Yes, for the same purpose and same person!—I am forced to speak explicitly—and abruptly. Indeed, Sir, you know not, you conceive not, the dreadfully alarming state of her nerves, nor the violence of her attachment.—You could scarcely else—" she stopt, for he changed colour and looked hurt: she saw he comprehended that she meant to add, you could scarcely else resist her: she finished, therefore, her phrase, by "scarcely else plan leaving her, till you saw her more composed, and more reconciled to herself, and to the world."