Her sickness, or absence, or death, would have increased the certainty of some one's having written.

No supposition could be formed but that his mistress had grown indifferent, or that she had transferred her affections to another.

The miscarriage of a letter was hardly within the reach of possibility.

From Leipsig to Hamburgh, and from Hamburgh hither, the conveyance was exposed to no hazard.
He had been so long detained in America chiefly in consequence of Wieland's aversion to the scheme which he proposed.

He now became more impatient than ever to return to Europe.