Part 62 (1/2)

'Ay: perhaps a proposition that you should leave him quietly possessed of the disputed property'

'And, having obtained that, he would desert his second wife as he had done his first'

'There is so woman and an old one

Beside, if your account be true, Mrs Wakefield, though she was your et that he seduced this lady, and deserted her'

'I have heard or read of adivorced even from a wife, became more passionately in love with her than ever'

'Wakefield is incapable of love'

'You fra of this Wakefield'

'And you suppose a degree of sympathy, between yourself and him, which cannot exist'

'Why not? His wit, person, and '

'I only gave the picture which I had froh a most injured woman'

'I recollect the story perfectly When you repeated it, notwithstanding ine I am persuaded that Wakefield himself, had he listened to it, would have felt a few uneasy sensations'

'I fear not'

'Why so? Is he made of materials totally different froine you will find he has a heart'

'But of what quality?'

'Better than you at present seerounds have you for thinking so favourably of him?'

'Very excellent Don't be surprised I know the man'

'Is it possible?'

'Where is the wonder? Knaves of other classes associate, and why should not gamblers?'

'It may be, then, you are deputed to speak in his behalf?'

'I wrote to you, and introduced this conversation, for that very purpose I know him as intimately as I can know any man I would speak of him as of myself, of his defects as of ht be pere his system To this property he supposes he has the best claim He is Thornby's heir at law; and, as to the eneral inquisition were ht to every species of property, he is persuaded that ninety-nine rich '

'What you have related has greatly surprised me You have pleaded and continue to plead his cause very powerfully: but have you no consideration forall you have supposed in his favour possible, am I so situated as to justify a romantic renunciation of claims which, if asserted, may aid me to accomplish my dearest hopes?'