"Will nothing satisfy this accusing spirit?
Edith! Dear Edith! Art thou not among the blessed ones?
Is not thy heart happy beyond mortal conception?
Then why come to me thus with those tearful eyes, that shadowy face, those looks of reproof?
Have I not suffered enough for purification! Am I never to be forgiven ?" And then, with an effort, he would turn his eyes from the page laid open by Memory, and seek to forget what was written there.

But it seemed as if every thing conspired to freshen his remembrance of the past, the nearer the time approached, when by a marriage union with one truly beloved, he was to weaken the bonds it had thrown around him.

The marriage of Miss Linmore took place a few weeks after his engagement with Clara, and as an intimate friend led her to the altar, he could not decline making one of the number that graced the nuptial festivities.

In meeting the young bride, he endeavored to push from his mind all thoughts of their former relations.

But she had not done this, and her thought determined his.