It is a lesson on the principles of human nature; on the delusiveness of appearances; on the perviousness of fraud; and on the power with which nature has invested human beings over the thoughts and actions of each other.
Thetford and his frauds were dismissed from my thoughts, to give place to considerations relative to Clemenza Lodi, and the money which chance had thrown into my possession.

Time had only confirmed my purpose to restore these bills to the rightful proprietor, and heightened my impatience to discover her retreat.

I reflected, that the means of doing this were more likely to suggest themselves at the place to which I was going than elsewhere.

I might, indeed, perish before my views, in this respect, could be accomplished.

Against these evils I had at present no power to provide.