To look back was more than he dare.

To look forward was more than he could.

In sheer despair, he let his own impetuous youth drive him on; and cast himself into the lowest dissipations of a London life.
"A woman's falsehood had driven him to his ruin.

A woman's love saved him at the outset of his downward career.

Let us not speak of her harshly--for we laid her with him yesterday in the grave.
"You, who only knew Mrs.Vanstone in later life, when illness and sorrow and secret care had altered and saddened her, can form no adequate idea of her attractions of person and character when she was a girl of seventeen.