That you did not pursue it, your present thoughts incontestibly prove.

Yet this conduct might surely have been expected from Pleyel.

That he would not hastily impute the blackest of crimes, that he would not couple my name with infamy, and cover me with ruin for inadequate or slight reasons, might reasonably have been expected." The sobs which convulsed my bosom would not suffer me to proceed.
Pleyel was for a moment affected.

He looked at me with some expression of doubt; but this quickly gave place to a mournful solemnity.

He fixed his eyes on the floor as in reverie, and spoke: "Two hours hence I am gone.