reply that could hold out to him any hope of success, however remote.

"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had

apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite- for that is

the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it

to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been

no occasion to tell you of it. At length he learned that my parents

were contemplating marriage for me in order to put an end to his hopes

of obtaining possession of me, or at least to secure additional