If the devil be now at work, and have been for months, it was because your scorn called him from his slumbers.

Before that time Edith, I was under the domination of my angel; who then called, or who deemed me, a villain?
Was I then a robber and persecutor of the orphan?
Am I _now_?
Perhaps so,--but it is yourself that have made me so.

For you, I called up my evil genius to my aid; and my evil-genius aided me.
He bade me woo no longer like the turtle but strike like the falcon.
Through plots and stratagems, through storms and perils, through battle and blood, I have pursued you, and I have conquered at last.

The captive of my sword and spear, you will spurn my love no longer; for, in truth, you cannot.

I came to the wilderness to seek an heiress for your uncle's wealth; I have found her.