He had at the first loved Rebecca, and it was strange to him now that he had let Cesarine outshine her.

He had acted like an observer, who takes a comet for a planet shaken out of its course.

Since he loved the Jewess with a holier flame than ever the Russian kindled, he perceived which was the true love.

This is not an earthly fire, but a divine spirit; not a chance shock, but the union of two souls in unbroken harmony.
It is possible that Von Sendlingen in transmitting to Clemenceau the notice by the butler's wife, that the Viscount Gratian was to aid her in flight, but which as plainly revealed the wife's flight, had expected the angered husband to execute justice on the betrayer.

Human laws could have absolved him if he had slain the couple at sight, but Clemenceau, after the example of his father, had resolved not to transgress the divine mandate again, even in this cause.