How, in a state like yours, the murderous intention could be generated, was wholly inconceivable.
"I did not relinquish my design of confessing to you the part which I had sustained in your family, but I was willing to defer it till the task which I had set myself was finished.

That being done, I resumed the resolution.

The motives to incite me to this continually acquired force.

The more I revolved the events happening at Mettingen, the more insupportable and ominous my terrors became.

My waking hours and my sleep were vexed by dismal presages and frightful intimations.
"Catharine was dead by violence.