I saw the danger from the first, and provided many expedients, which, one after the other, fortune frustrated.

I can't confidently say even now that it would have been wiser to leave Sturk to die, as the doctors said he must.

I had a foreboding, in spite of all they could say, he would wake up before he died and denounce me.

If 'twas a mistake, 'twas a fated one, and I could not help it.
'So, Sir, you see I've nothing to blame myself for--though all has broken down.
'I guessed when I heard the sound at the hall-door of my house that Sturk or Irons had spoken, and that they were come to take me.

Had I broken through them, I might have made my escape.