Perdition or felicity will hang upon that moment.
This conversation was late in the evening.

After I had consented to postpone this subject, we parted, he telling me that he would leave his chamber door open, and as soon as my mind was made up I might come to him.
* The reader must be reminded that the incidents of this narrative are supposed to have taken place before the voyages of Bougainville and Cook .-- Editor..