&c.

These were the outer surfaces of the measure; the unconscious pretexts under which it showed itself to Sterling and was shown by him: but the inner heart and determining cause of it (as frequently in Sterling's life, and in all our lives) was not these.

In brief, he had had enough of St.Vincent.The strangling oppressions of his soul were too heavy for him there.

Solution lay in Europe, or might lie; not in these remote solitudes of the sea,--where no shrine or saint's well is to be looked for, no communing of pious pilgrims journeying together towards a shrine..