We enter the Priory – The murderer, and his den – Mr. Haversham gives us a lecture, which we might have expected, and something else for which we had no right to look – We are restored to liberty, and regain our courage.

Though I was a good deal puzzled, to guess, for what particular purpose Mr. Haversham had ordered us to follow him to the Priory, I had not the least difficulty, in coming to the conclusion, that no good was intended. I had heard much of the violence of his disposition, and understood, that, for many years, he scarcely permitted a human being to pass within his walls, save the workmen, whom it was occasionally his pleasure to employ, and his own domestics. Indulging among these, the absolute humours of an eastern despot, I was at a loss to conjecture, how far his resentful feelings would carry him now, and what ingenious mortification he had devised for our punishment.