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Why did you betray me to
this silly family?"
"Because, as I said before, I could not help it; my temper got the
better of me."
"Ay, and I fear it will always get the better of you. I could now give
you very agreeable information as to that property and the piece of
curds that possesses it; but then, as I said, there is no placing any
confidence in a woman of your temper."
"If the property is concerned, Harry, you may depend your life on me. So
help me, God, if ever I will betray you again."
"Well, that's a solemn asseveration, and I will depend on it; but if
you betray me to this family the property is lost to us and our heirs
forever."
"Do not fear me; I have taken the oath."
"Well, then, listen; if you could understand Latin, I would give you a
quotation from a line of Virgil--
'_Haeret lateri lethhalis arundo_.'
The girl's doomed--subdued--overcome; I am in the process of killing
her."
"Of killing her! My God, how? not by violence, surely--that, you know,
would not be safe."
"I know that; no--not by violence, but by the power of this dark eye
that you see in my head.


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