I am persuaded I need not be more particular in my inquiries. Here
is a purse of money; take it, and deliver me from a most alarming and
uneasy suspense." So saying, she deposited her offering upon the
table, and waited for his answer, with a face of fearful expectation,
while he was employed in writing this sentence for her perusal:
"Though I see into the womb of time, the prospect is not perfectly
distinct: the seeds of future events lie mingled and confused. So
that I am under the necessity of assisting my divination in some
cases, by analogy and human intelligence; and cannot possibly
satisfy your present doubts, unless you will condescend to make me
privy to all those occurrences which you think might have interfered
with the cause of your apprehension."
The lady having read the declaration, affected a small emotion of
shyness and repugnance, and, seating herself upon a settee, after
having cautiously informed herself of the privacy of the apartment,
gave such a detail of the succession of her lovers, as amazed, while
it entertained, the necromancer, as well as his friend Pickle, who,
from a closet in which he had concealed himself, overheard every
syllable of her confession.
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