Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK.
most private affairs and covert designs; plans are
being concerted to defeat our aims and thwart the
holy purposes of the hierarchy I"
"Doubtless, it is even so; it behooves us the more,
to move cautiously; when profane eyes peep through
the blanket of the dark, 'tis time to beware. Have
your designs, in any important affair of late, been
defeated ~"
"Yea, I've been sadly balked-and that, in a plot
I had calculated much on; all my wire-working for a
twelvemonth has been overset--and just when I had
thought it brought to a focus: 'twas villainous I and
a villain it was - a meddlesome, Protestant villain
that defeated me I"
"Perdition catch his soul! in what, pray, did he
defeat you ~"
"In an affair I once told you of: a lady of fortune,
a maiden lady, whose mind I had wrought upon, so
that she felt it a duty to renounce the world and
seclude herself in a convent, was about making over
to the church a large portion of her property, preparatory
to consecrating her life to God, when, as the
malice of the devil would have it, a fascinating, handsome
fellow, chanced to make her acquaintance-c-snddenly
she changed her mind with regard to taking the
vail, and this very day was married I"
"Sacrilegious I-May heaven plant thorns in her
brids -bed, and make her life more wretched than
she hopes to render it happy I"
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