It might as well be Melusine herself. " But the caution came too late. An unwelcome idea came to him. "I think I may trust him with you, Sir," added she, taking up the candle. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. Much has been advanced by modern writers respecting the demoralising effect of prison society; and it has been asserted, that a youth once confined in Newgate, is certain to come out a confirmed thief. This is a plot entirely abominable, and I scorn to be part of it. A wave of pity went over him—pity for the patient, the girl, and his friend. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the fate to which I consigned his father. He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her, assailing her. " "Almighty God! is this possible?" exclaimed Thames.
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