I am too full of phrensy, Fairfax, to tell thee what I mean: but she has given me another proof, more damning even than all the former, of the gluttony with which her soul gorges. Her gloating eye devours him; ay, I being present. Nay, were I this moment in her arms, her arms would be clasping him, not me: with him she would carouse, nor would any thing like me exist--Contagion!--Poison and boiling oil!-- Never before was patience so put to the proof--My danger was extreme. With rage flaming in my heart, I was obliged to wear complacency, satisfaction and smiles on my countenance. The fellow has determined to ship himself for America--Would it were for the bottomless pit!--And had you beheld her panic?--St. Luke's collected maniacs at the full of the moon could not have equalled her!--'Twas well indeed her frantic outrage was so violent, or I had been detected and all had been lost--As it was I half betrayed myself--the fellow's eye glanced at me. However it gave me my cue; and, all things considered, I afterward performed to a miracle. Her own enthusiastic torrent swept all before it, and gave me time. She was in an ecstasy; reasoning, supplicating, conjuring, panting. I, her friends, the whole world must join her: and join her I did. It was the very relief of which hypocrisy stood in need. I entreated this straight-backed youth, stiff in determination, to condescend to lend a pitying ear to our petitions; to suffer us to permeate his bowels of compassion, and avert this fatal and impending cloud, fraught with evils, misery, and mischief-- But marry no!--It could not be!--Sentence was passed--He had been at the trouble to make a pair of scales, and knew the weight to a scruple of every link in the whole chain of cause and effect--Teach him, truly!--Advise him!--Move him!--When? Who? How?--At last compliance, willing to be royally gracious, said, Well it would consider--Though there was but little hope--Nothing it had heard had any cogency of perscrutation--But, in fine, it would be clement, and consider. Do you not see this fellow, Fairfax? Is he not now before your eyes? Is he not the most consummate--? But why do I trouble myself a moment about him?--It is her!--Her!--