Page:Duty and Inclination. Volume 3.pdf/150

148 power of removing even its slightest windings, by which she might have gained some insight into his thoughts, views, and purposes, divested of every false coloring, she would have shrunk with horror at the appalling discovery—an exhibition of his internal deformity. That hideous sight, the unveiled human heart, would have presented a spectacle to her pure mind which would have chilled the vital current in her veins.

Melliphant in due time received that reply which, with combined feelings of anxiety and suspense, he had been daily expecting.—But having sufficiently dwelt upon the intemperate passion by which he was governed, let us proceed to other themes.