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With that smooth falsehood, whose appearance charms, / / And reason of each wholesome doubt disarms; / / Which to the lowest depths of guilt descends, / / By vilest means pursues the vilest ends. / / Wears friendship's mask for purposes of spite, / / Fawns in the day and butchers in the night. / / CHURCHILL.
The dwelling of Sir Willmott Burrell was about eighteen or twenty miles / from the island of Shepey, on the Kentish border. The mysterious / companion of De Guerre had correctly stated, that at the period of his / introduction to the Cecil family the youth had little chance of meeting / with his treacherous antagonist of the evening on which the remains of / Lady Cecil were consigned to the tomb; the knight having been, for some / days previous, occupied upon certain weighty affairs within his own / house. A bad landlord can never succeed in convincing his tenantry that / he is a good man. The presence of Sir Willmott was by no means desirable / to his poorer neighbours and dependents, by whom he was at once dreaded / and disliked.