He resolved to pursue it, let the consequences be what they might.

He depended upon finding Antonia in some unguarded moment; And seeing no other Man admitted into her society, nor hearing any mentioned either by her or by Elvira, He imagined that her young heart was still unoccupied.

While He waited for the opportunity of satisfying his unwarrantable lust, every day increased his coldness for Matilda.

Not a little was this occasioned by the consciousness of his faults to her.

To hide them from her He was not sufficiently master of himself: Yet He dreaded lest, in a transport of jealous rage, She should betray the secret on which his character and even his life depended.