You may pass through the brief period of your human life with a proud step and a cheerful heart, if you listen to my advice.

You have been neglected from your childhood; you have been thrown among nations at once frivolous and coarse; your nobler dispositions, your higher qualities, are not developed.

You were pleased with the admiration of Glyndon; you thought that the passionate stranger might marry you, while others had only uttered the vows that dishonor.

Poor child, it was the instinctive desire of right within thee that made thee listen to him; and if my fatal shadow had not crossed thy path, thou wouldst have loved him well enough, at least, for content.

Return to that hope, and nurse again that innocent affection: this is my answer to thee.