Among your books which I had not examined, might be something tending to illustrate your character, or the history of your family.

Some intimation had been dropped by you in discourse, respecting a performance of your father, in which some important transaction in his life was recorded.
"I was desirous of seeing this book; and such was my habitual attachment to mystery, that I preferred the clandestine perusal of it.

Such were the motives that induced me to make this attempt.

Judith had disappeared, and finding the house unoccupied, I supplied myself with a light, and proceeded to your chamber.
"I found it easy, on experiment, to lock and unlock your closet door without the aid of a key.

I shut myself in this recess, and was busily exploring your shelves, when I heard some one enter the room below.