But, alas! such was her evil fortune, that, whether mad or no, his power over her remained the same, and was likely to be used only the more tyrannously, if exercised by a lunatic.
"I would not give you pain," she said, soothingly; "your faith allows you the consolations of penance and absolution.

Try what help there may be in these, and leave me to myself." "Do not think it, Miriam," said he; "we are bound together, and can never part again." "Why should it seem so impossible ?" she rejoined.
"Think how I had escaped from all the past! I had made for myself a new sphere, and found new friends, new occupations, new hopes and enjoyments.

My heart, methinks, was almost as unburdened as if there had been no miserable life behind me.

The human spirit does not perish of a single wound, nor exhaust itself in a single trial of life.

Let us but keep asunder, and all may go well for both." "We fancied ourselves forever sundered," he replied.