ABSTRACT
After the first concussion of horror had subsided, and the brain began to feel the returning powers of reflection, lady Susan informed Mrs. Morley of her motive for first leaving Fanny under her protection. ‘I had in vain endeavoured to soften the indignation of my family; I had firmly and inviolably kept my resolution, not to disclose the name or condition of my betrayer. For, alas! though rendered the most wretched of the human race, I still loved him too tenderly to expose him to the resentment of my brother, whose high-souled sensibility would have produced a rencontre which must have terminated fatally. I knew that your nature was tender, as it was exalted; and I consigned my offspring to your bosom, beneath the roof of its unnatural father.
