He had said aright,--love had vanished from his heart; there was no longer a serene space amidst its disordered elements for human affection to move and breathe.

The enthusiast was rapt from this earth; and he would have surrendered all that beauty ever promised, that mortal hope ever whispered, for one hour with Zicci beyond the portals of the visible world.
He rose, oppressed and fevered with the new thoughts that raged within him, and threw open his casement for air.

The ocean lay suffused in the starry light, and the stillness of the heavens never more eloquently preached the morality of repose to the madness of earthly passions.

But such was Glyndon's mood that their very hush only served to deepen the wild desires that preyed upon his soul.

And the solemn stars, that are mysteries in themselves, seemed by a kindred sympathy to agitate the wings of the spirit no longer contented with its cage.