Now for Fulbert! The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more.

He proclaimed the marriage in the high places of the city and rejoiced that dishonor had departed from his house.

But lo! Abelard denied the marriage! Heloise denied it! The people, knowing the former circumstances, might have believed Fulbert had only Abelard denied it, but when the person chiefly interested--the girl herself--denied it, they laughed, despairing Fulbert to scorn.
The poor canon of the cathedral of Paris was spiked again.

The last hope of repairing the wrong that had been done his house was gone.

What next?
Human nature suggested revenge.