I do not think any trial, excepting the one she was suffering, would have so utterly unsettled her.

If intromission be not criminal, till it exceeds a certain point, and that point be unsettled, and, consequently, different in different minds, the right of intromission, and the right of the creditor arising from it, are all jura vaga, and, by consequence, are jura incognita; and the result can be no other than a misera servitus, an uncertainty concerning the event of action, a servile dependance on private opinion.

But of course I was too late to profit by these; they merely unsettled me.

Their conceits sadly unsettle trade, and I know not why they may not cause a wilful girl to do any other act of folly.