And this tranquil, modest, prudent young man loses at the gaming-table ten thousand crowns, the property of his benefactor! His laudable course of conduct was but a base hypocrisy!" "And nevertheless," murmured the old Deodati, "my unfortunate nephew had a pure and loving heart! Might not his blindness have been the effect of one solitary and momentary error?
Perhaps so.

Man sometimes meets fatal temptations which attract him irresistibly, but to which he yields only once in his life." "Why then did he fly, and thus acknowledge his guilt?
No, signor, no excuse can palliate such misdeeds.

I burn with indignation at the thought that such signal favors have met with such cold and base ingratitude.

The idea of your affliction restrains me from speaking of the outrage done my daughter.

Fortunately, the reputation and social position of my family is such as to screen it from the consequences of such an act.