Louise was much too clever to disappear and leave traces behind.

Besides, he had no wish to find her.

The hereditary self in him accepted his disaster as representing the natural retribution which the canny Divine vengeance keeps in store for those who take to themselves wives of the daughters of Heth.

And there was the sense, too, of emerging from something unclean, of recovering his manhood.
He took his two children and went to lodgings in a decent street near the Gray's Inn Road.

There for a year things went fairly well with him.