midnight
`` I am , Madam , with the most perfect respect and gratitude , `` Your obliged and obedient servant , F. Williams . '' Your own heart , my dear Fitzgerald , will tell you what were our reflections on reading the inclosed : Emily , whose gentle heart feels for the weaknesses as well as misfortunes of others , will to-morrow fetch this heroic girl and her little ward , to spend a week at Bellfield ; and we will then consider what is to be done for them . You know Sir William Verville ; go to him from me with the inclosed letter , he is a man of honor , and will , I am certain , provide for the poor babe , who , had not his father been a monster of unfeeling inhumanity , would have inherited the estate and title Sir William now enjoys . Is not the midnight murderer , my dear friend , white as snow to this vile seducer ? this betrayer of unsuspecting , trusting , innocence ? what transport is it to me to reflect , that not one bosom ever heaved a sigh of remorse of which I was the cause ! I grieve for the poor victim of a tenderness , amiable in itself , though productive of such dreadful consequences when not under the guidance of reason .