You ask me my inducement to leave you.

'The World' will be sufficient answer.

I cannot share your contempt of it, nor your fear.

I am, and have been of late, consumed with a thirst,--eager, and burning, and unquenchable: it is ambition!" "Oh, Morton!" said Aubrey, with a second sigh, longer and deeper than the first, "that evil passion! the passion which lost an angel heaven." "Let us not now dispute, my brother, whether it be sinful in itself, or whether, if its object be virtuous, it is not a virtue.

In baring my soul before you, I only speak of my motives, and seek not to excuse them.