had been described to me. There I met a great mob, sure enough,
coming with two dead bodies stretched on boards, and decently covered
with white sheets. I would fain have examined their appearance, had I
not perceived the apparent fury in the looks of the men, and judged
from that how much more safe it was for me not to intermeddle in the
affray. I cannot tell how it was, but I felt a strange and unwonted
delight in viewing this scene, and a certain pride of heart in being
supposed the perpetrator of the unnatural crimes laid to my charge.
This was a feeling quite new to me; and if there were virtues in the
robes of the illustrious foreigner, who had without all dispute
preserved my life at this time: I say, if there was any inherent virtue
in these robes of his, as he had suggested, this was one of their
effects' that they turned my heart towards that which was evil,
horrible, and disgustful.

I mixed with the mob to hear what they were saying. Every tongue was
engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets! One called me
a monster of nature; another an incarnate devil; and another a creature
made to be cursed in time and eternity. I retired from them and, winded
my way southwards, comforting myself with the assurance that so mankind
had used and persecuted the greatest fathers and apostles of the
Christian Church, and that their vile opprobrium could not alter the
counsels of Heaven concerning me.

On going over that rising ground called Dorington Moor, I could not
help turning round and taking a look of Dalcastle. I had little doubt
that it would be my last look, and nearly as little ambition that it
should not. I thought how high my hopes of happiness and advancement
had been on entering that mansion, and taking possession of its rich
and extensive domains, and how miserably I had been disappointed. On
the contrary, I had experienced nothing but chagrin, disgust, and
terror; and I now consoled myself with the hope that I should
henceforth shake myself free of the chains of my great tormentor, and
for that privilege was I willing to encounter any earthly distress. I
could not help perceiving that I was now on a path which was likely to
lead me into a species of distress hitherto unknown, and hardly dreamed
of by me, and that was total destitution. For all the riches I had been
possessed of a few hours previous to this, I found that here I was
turned out of my lordly possessions without a single merk, or t