The royal passport came ere I was ready to depart, expressed in the fullest, clearest language, and such as none, but an officer prepared instantly to rebel against the authority which gave it, dared defy.

During the last preparations, Velna and Eveena were closeted together in the chamber of the former; nor did I care to interrupt a parting the most painful, save one, of those that had this day to be undergone.

I went myself to Eive.
"I leave you," I said, "a prisoner, not, I hope, for long.

If I return in safety, I will then consider in what manner the termination of your confinement can be reconciled with what is due to myself and others.
If not, you will be yet more certainly and more speedily released.

And now, child whom I once loved, to whom I thought I had been especially gentle and indulgent, was the miserable reward offered you the sole motive that raised your hand against my life?
Poison, I have always said, is the protection of the household slave against the domestic tyrant.