The last hope of renewing his engagement with his cousin had to be abandoned.

His pecuniary position was precarious, and in a short time he was destined to lose the one friend who had so generously shared his fate.

Yet the notion of recovering his position as a student in one of our great Universities, of softening his father's indignation, or of ameliorating his present circumstances by the least concession, never seems to have occurred to him.

He had suffered in the cause of truth and liberty, and he willingly accepted his martyrdom for conscience' sake..