Shall I carry away with me the sorrow that is now my guest?
or shall that sorrow be accumulated tenfold?
What is she that is now before me?
Shall every hour supply me with new proofs of a wickedness beyond example?
Already I deem her the most abandoned and detestable of human creatures.

Her coming and her tears imparted a gleam of hope, but that gleam has vanished." He now fixed his eyes upon me, and every muscle in his face trembled.
His tone was hollow and terrible--"Thou knowest that I was a witness of your interview, yet thou comest hither to upbraid me for injustice! Thou canst look me in the face and say that I am deceived!--An inscrutable providence has fashioned thee for some end.

Thou wilt live, no doubt, to fulfil the purposes of thy maker, if he repent not of his workmanship, and send not his vengeance to exterminate thee, ere the measure of thy days be full.

Surely nothing in the shape of man can vie with thee! "But I thought I had stifled this fury.

I am not constituted thy judge.
My office is to pity and amend, and not to punish and revile.