ABSTRACT
Our hero and heroine might be now considered as almost at the summit of human felicity. He was conscious of no violation of his faith, and she had rested his fate on that ground. He was, therefore, confident of the happy issue. She, from all his public conduct, and her private knowledge of him, had every reason to assure herself of his complete acquittal. Her love, which had been so long unnaturally restrained, returned with more impetuous force, sanctioned by the approbation of her own family.
