Not to my relief and pleasure.

That could scarcely be, remembering all that had occurred; rather to my increasing distress and passionate resentment.
I longed to forget I was held by a tie, that known to the world would cause me the bitterest shame.

For by this time the true character of her father and brother had been revealed and I found myself bound to the daughter of a convicted criminal.
"But I could not forget her.

The look with which she had left me was branded into my consciousness.

Night and day it floated before me, till to escape it I resolved to fasten it upon canvas, if by that means I might succeed in eliminating it from my dreams.
"The painting you have seen this night is the result.