ABSTRACT
This expostulation, and these menaces, resumed lord Danvers, I resisted. The most exemplary of women had already borne me a son and a daughter. Could I break up this little establishment? could I overturn the prospects of creatures tied to me by the most sacred and heart-felt bonds, and record myself, the husband of the one, the father of the others, as the most pernicious of villains? No. I had put my hand to the plough, and could not draw / back. I had 134engaged in a voyage, that could never be terminated as long as I lived, and they lived; and I must proceed.
