I speak in a double sense; but if I
find, after all, that they are likely to fail, I shall take others still
more decisive."
CHAPTER XIII. Woodward is Discarded from Mr. Goodwin's Family
--Other Particulars of Importance.
The reader sees that Harry Woodward, having ascertained the mutual
affection which subsisted between his brother and Alice, resorted to
such measures as were likely to place obstructions in the way of their
meeting, which neither of them was likely to remove. He felt, now,
satisfied that Charles, in consequence of the malignant fabrications
which he himself had palmed upon him for truth, would, most assuredly,
make no further attempt to renew their former intimacy. When Alice, too,
stated to him, that if she married not Charles, whether he proved worthy
of her or otherwise, she would never marry another, he felt that she was
unconsciously advancing the diabolical plans which he was projecting and
attempting to carry into effect. If she died without marriage or without
issue, the property, at her death, according to his uncle's will,
reverted, as we have said, to himself.
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