‘Oh, no doubt he will be caught in some of his own snares by and bye.’
‘But do you think he has ruined the girl?’
‘He is villain enough for anything.’
‘He must be a monster, indeed, if he could perpetrate such a crime as that. I must have another glass of wine.’
‘Do you think that he who did not hesitate to attempt the life of the father, and the violation of the daughter, would shrink from any thing.’
‘But, then, her youth—her innocence.’
‘Psha!—he is a stranger to such feelings as they ought to inspire.’
‘Why, to be sure, from his general conduct, we have an undoubted right to suppose that he is.’
‘And yet I think that he has had some other motive for getting the girl in his power; that he has found her necessary to advance his base schemes.’
There was a pause.