But when the two feelings are both intense, and meet in an ardent bosom, such a man would do well to spend a day or two upon his knees, praying for grace divine.

For he who with all his soul loves and hates one woman is next door to a maniac, and is scarcely safe an hour together from suicide or even from homicide; this truth the newspapers tell us, by examples, every month; but are wonderfully little heeded, because newspapers do not, nor is it their business to, analyze and dwell upon the internal feelings of the despairing lover, whose mad and bloody act they record.

With such a tempest in his heart did Camille one day wander into the park.

And soon an irresistible attraction drew him to the side of the stream that flowed along one side of it.

He eyed it gloomily, and wherever the stagnant water indicated a deeper pool than usual he stopped, and looked, and thought, "How calm and peaceful you are!" He sat down at last by the water-side, his eyes bent on a calm, green pool.
It looked very peaceful; and it could give peace.