I have only to repeat to her her own words.

She will listen with a tranquil air, and the spectacle of her obduracy will drive me to some desperate act.

Why then should I persist! yet persist I must." Again he paused.

"No," said he, "it is impossible to repeat your avowals of love, your appeals to former confessions of your tenderness, to former deeds of dishonor, to the circumstances of the first interview that took place between you.

It was on that night when I traced you to this recess.