'No! no!' cried Emily, clasping her hands together.'When he first came into my way—that the day had never dawned upon me, and he had met me being carried to my grave!—I had been brought up as virtuous as you or any lady, and was going to be the wife of as good a man as you or any lady in the world can ever marry. If you live in his home and know him,you know, perhaps, what his power with a weak, vain girl might be. I don't defend myself, but I know well,and he knows well, or he will know when he comes to die, and his mind is troubled with it, that he used all his power to deceive me, and that I believed him,trusted him, and loved him!'