Hence, his accusations of you, and his efforts to obtain my concurrence to a plan by which an eternal separation should be brought about between my sister and this man." I made Wieland repeat this recital.

Here, indeed, was a tale to fill me with terrible foreboding.

I had vainly thought that my safety could be sufficiently secured by doors and bars, but this is a foe from whose grasp no power of divinity can save me! His artifices will ever lay my fame and happiness at his mercy.

How shall I counterwork his plots, or detect his coadjutor?
He has taught some vile and abandoned female to mimic my voice.

Pleyel's ears were the witnesses of my dishonor.