He hath been awakened to Ramorny's baseness, and deeply regrets having followed his evil advice.

I believe, nay, I am well convinced, that his passion for you has assumed a nobler and purer character, and that the lessons he has heard from me on the corruptions of the church and of the times will, if enforced from your lips, sink deeply into his heart, and perhaps produce fruits for the world to wonder as well as rejoice at.

Old prophecies have said that Rome shall fall by the speech of a woman." "These are dreams, father," said Catharine--"the visions of one whose thoughts are too much on better things to admit his thinking justly upon the ordinary affairs of Perth.

When we have looked long at the sun, everything else can only be seen indistinctly." "Thou art over hasty, my daughter," said Clement, "and thou shalt be convinced of it.

The prospects which I am to open to thee were unfit to be exposed to one of a less firm sense of virtue, or a more ambitious temper.