Through the mind, he indirectly addressed and subtly wooed her.
"Such," he said, as he rose to take leave, "such is the career to which I could depart with joy if I did not depart alone!" "Alone!" that word, more than once that day, Lucretia repeated to herself--"alone!" And what career was left to her ?--she, too, alone! In certain stages of great grief our natures yearn for excitement.

This has made some men gamblers; it has made even women drunkards,--it had effect over the serene calm and would-be divinity of the poet-sage.

When his son dies, Goethe does not mourn, he plunges into the absorption of a study uncultivated before.

But in the great contest of life, in the whirlpool of actual affairs, the stricken heart finds all,--the gambling, the inebriation, and the study.
We pause here.

We have pursued long enough that patient analysis, with all the food for reflection that it possibly affords, to which we were insensibly led on by an interest, dark and fascinating, that grew more and more upon us as we proceeded in our research into the early history of a person fated to pervert no ordinary powers into no commonplace guilt.
The charm is concluded, the circle closed round; the self-guided seeker after knowledge has gained the fiend for the familiar..