As his judgment determined, her intuitions had approved.

Alas for her that this was no longer! Hitherto she had walked by his side with a clear light upon their path.

She was ready to walk on still, and to walk bravely so far as herself was concerned, even though her straining eyes could not penetrate the cloudy veil that made all before her darkness and mystery.
Fanny, who had looked forward with a vague fear to her father's return on that evening, felt relieved on hearing that he had gone to New York, for that would give sufficient time for him to receive a letter from Mr.Lyon.
Thus it was with the family of Mr.Markland on this particular occasion.

A crisis, looked for with trembling anxiety, seemed just at, hand; and yet it was still deferred--leaving, at least in one bosom, a heart-sickness that made life itself almost a burden..