"These are the associates, Amy"-- it was thus he communed with himself--"to which thy cruel levity--thine unthinking and most unmerited falsehood, has condemned him of whom his friends once hoped far other things, and who now scorns himself, as he will be scorned by others, for the baseness he stoops to for the love of thee! But I will not leave the pursuit of thee, once the object of my purest and most devoted affection, though to me thou canst henceforth be nothing but a thing to weep over.

I will save thee from thy betrayer, and from thyself; I will restore thee to thy parent--to thy God.

I cannot bid the bright star again sparkle in the sphere it has shot from, but--" A slight noise in the apartment interrupted his reverie.

He looked round, and in the beautiful and richly-attired female who entered at that instant by a side-door he recognized the object of his search.

The first impulse arising from this discovery urged him to conceal his face with the collar of his cloak, until he should find a favourable moment of making himself known.