ABSTRACT
I shall draw a veil over the mournful scene which ensued. Experience, alone, can teach us the depth and extent of such woe; for it is utterly impossible to describe it. Human expressions cannot reach so far. And, if there is any thing which can increase it, it must be, when we are conscious of having contributed to shorten the existence of the beloved object; when this mental voice pursues us night and day, and repeats that we have been the chief cause of the misery we experience. Yet, Edmond did not impute it entirely to his own fault; but, in his desperation, he accused all nature, and cursed the two women, whose detested plots had deceived Malvina, and occasioned this fatal catastrophe.
