ABSTRACT
The virtue and perseverance of Gabrielle, who, with a severe conscientiousness that set self at nought, endeavoured as much as possible to recover the fatal lapse of her inexperienced youth, and with an ever-watchful zeal, sedulously to preserve, even in its remotest ramifications, society from being injured by her errors, reaped in so much the reward of those virtues which glowed at her heart, independently of its weakness, that Angelo became to her all that her fond love, all that her delicate mind could desire; and could but the past have been obliterated, he had been perfect – he appeared no longer the wandering creature of temptation, the precipitate unguarded youth; he was sobered into the domestic husband, the tender father, and the faithful friend.
