Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

60 DANGER IN 'mE DARK.
your matrimonial intentions. He's too well acquainted
with human nature, to make an undisguised attempt
to prevent your marriage with Anna Maria; he knew
it would be a much less difficult matter, to persuade
her to a temporary separation from you, than to an utter
abandonment at once of the notion of matrimony;
and he knew also, that an ultimate separation would
be more easily effected after several months' absence,
and havin-g her mind all the while absorbed in the
mummery she is advised to practice during the period
of her seclusion."
" Think you, he will aim to lead her on to take the
monastic vows i"
"I have not a doubt, that such is his intention;
but that he'll keep carefully hidden both from Maria
aud her mother, till, in his estimation their minds
are prepared for it. There is a power in Romanism
to infatuate, which they little comprehend."
"I fear it," said Carleton, with a troubled air and
a look of deep concern.
"But there's no help for it, Alonzo; it's quite impossible
for any Protestant to have access to her,
where she now is, either in person or by letter."
"If I could have had a chance of reasoning with
her before she went, I'm sure she wonld not have
complied with Dupin's request."
"He evidently had fears on that score-hence he
urged her to go immediately-and that even, without
a chance of bidding yon farewell."