That his delusion would so soon be rectified, was a recommendation to my scheme, for I esteemed him too much to desire to entail upon him lasting agonies.
"I had no time to reflect further, for he proceeded, with a quick step, towards the house.

I was hurried onward involuntarily and by a mechanical impulse.

I followed him as he passed the recess in the bank, and shrowding myself in that spot, I counterfeited sounds which I knew would arrest his steps.
"He stopped, turned, listened, approached, and overheard a dialogue whose purpose was to vanquish his belief in a point where his belief was most difficult to vanquish.

I exerted all my powers to imitate your voice, your general sentiments, and your language.

Being master, by means of your journal, of your personal history and most secret thoughts, my efforts were the more successful.