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 than myself, but now I began to fancy that I had been enviable an hour ago."

"Not the most distant idea of God's judgments came in my mind, however I had a confused notion of halter and gibbet, and of the execution of a murderer which I had witnessed when a boy. The idea of having forfeited my life froze my very soul with dreadful fear: I wished ardently that it might be in my power to restore to life my slain enemy, and racked my brain to recall to my recollection all the injuries he had made me suffer, but, strange to tell, my memory seemed to be entirely extinguished, I could not recall a shadow of all the ideas, which, but a quarter of an hour ago had filled my soul with glowing revenge; I could not conceive how I could commit such a horrid deed."

"I was still standing by the corpse in a kind of stupefaction, when I was roused