THE
WANDERER.
BOOK III.
CHAPTER XX.
Ellis hastened to the house; but her weeping eyes, and disordered state of mind, unfitted her for an immediate encounter with Elinor, and she went straight to her own chamber; where, in severe meditation upon her position, her duties, and her calls for exertion, she "communed with her own heart." Although unable, while involved in uncertainties, to arrange any regular plan of general conduct, conscience, that unerring guide, where con-
