Perhaps he had not yet awakened to the memory of the horrors which he had perpetrated.

Infatuated wretch that I was! To set myself up as a model by which to judge of my heroic brother! My reason taught me that his conclusions were right; but conscious of the impotence of reason over my own conduct; conscious of my cowardly rashness and my criminal despair, I doubted whether any one could be stedfast and wise.
Such was my weakness, that even in the midst of these thoughts, my mind glided into abhorrence of Carwin, and I uttered in a low voice, O! Carwin! Carwin! What hast thou to answer for?
My brother immediately noticed the involuntary exclamation: "Clara!" said he, "be thyself.

Equity used to be a theme for thy eloquence.
Reduce its lessons to practice, and be just to that unfortunate man.

The instrument has done its work, and I am satisfied.
"I thank thee, my God, for this last illumination! My enemy is thine also.

I deemed him to be man, the man with whom I have often communed; but now thy goodness has unveiled to me his true nature.