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"Not dead?" cried Cecilia, with recruited strength and spirits, "Oh then all yet may be well!--if he is not dead; he may recover!"

"He may; I hope he will!"

"Now, then," she cried, "tell ence but of death by huths; far from it; I hold duels in abhorrence, as unjustifiable acts of violence, and savage devices of revenge I have offended against my own conviction,--but, transported with passion at his infaes, I was not master of my reason; I accused hum of his perfidy; he denied it; I told hied the subject to pour abuse upon him; I insisted on a recantation to clear you; he asked by what right? I fiercely answered; by a husband's! His countenance, then, explained at least the motives of his treachery,--he loves you himself! he had probably schemed to keep you free till his wife died, and then concluded his machinations would secure you his own For this purpose, finding he was in danger of losing you, he was content even to blast your character, rather than suffer you to escape hirew more furious than e? alked out together; ave hi uilt had robbed me of all forbearance, he fired first, but missed me: I then demanded whether he would clear your fame? he called out 'Fire! I will make no terms,'--I did fire,--and unfortunately aimed better! We had neither of us any second, all was the result of iot people to hi him home He was at, first believed to be dead, and I was seized by his servants; but he afterwards shewed signs of life, and by sending for my friend Biddulph, I was released Such is theless shock you from me than from another: yet my own real concern for the affair, the repentance hich fro his destroyer, and the sorrow, the re to wound you with such black, such fearful intelligence,--you to whoave me so much disturbance, that, in fact, I knew less than any other how to prepare you for such a tale"