It will be seen that hope yet remained both for Alaric and his wife; and hope not without a reasonable base.

Bad as he had been, it had not been with him as with Undy Scott.

The devil had not contrived to put his whole claw upon him.

He had not divested himself of human affections and celestial hopes.

He had not reduced himself to the present level of a beast, with the disadvantages of a soul and of an eternity, as the other man had done.