know—then owned

she did know the name of the man who had undone her, but would never utter it.—At length, she cast herself on her knees before the father of her betrayer, and supplicated "he would not punish her with severity, as she most penitently confessed her fault, so far as it related to herself."
While Mr. and Mrs. Norwynne, just entered on the honey-moon, were sitting side by side enjoying with peace and with honour conjugal society; poor Hannah, threatened, reviled, and sinking to the dust, was hearing from the mouth of William's father, the enormity of those crimes to which his son had been accessary.—She saw the mittimus written that was to convey her into a prison—saw herself delivered once more into the hands of constables, before her resolution of concealing the name of William in her story left her.—She now, overcome with affright, and thinking she should expose him still more in a public court, if hereafter on her trial she should be obliged to name him—she now humbly asked the dean to hear a few words she had to say

in private—where she promised she "would speak nothing but the truth."
This was impossible, he said—"No private confessions before a magistrate! All must be done openly."
She urged again and again the same request—it was denied more peremptorily than at first. On which she said,
"Then, Sir, forgive me, since you force me to it, if I speak before Mr. Rymer and those men, what I would for ever have kept a secret if I could.—One of your family is my child's father."
"Any of my servants?" cried the dean.
"No."
"My nephew?"
"No; one who is nearer still."
"Come this way," said the dean, "I will speak to you in private.
It was not that the dean, as a magistrate, distributed partial decrees of pretended justice—he was rigidly faithful to his trust—he would not inflict punishment on the innocent, or let the guilty escape—but in all particulars of refined or coarse treatment, he would alleviate or aggravate according to the rank of the

offender. He could not feel that a secret was of equal importance to a poor, as to a rich person—and while Hannah gave no intimation but that her delicacy rose from fears for herself, she did not so forcibly impress the dean with an opinion that it was a case which had pressing cause for a private conference, as when she boldly said, "a part of