The youth did not pretend to console--he well knew that the mental nature would have its course, and to withstand or arrest it would only have the effect of further provoking its morbidity.

He replied calmly, but feelingly-- "Your situation is unhappy, Forrester, and calls for serious reflection.
It is not for me to offer advice to one so much more experienced than myself.

Yet my thoughts are at your service for what they are worth.

You can not, of course, hope to remain in the country after this; yet, in flying from that justice to which you will have made no atonement, you will not necessarily escape the consequences of your crime, which, I feel satisfied, will, for a long season, rest heavily upon a spirit such as yours.

Your confederates have greatly the advantage of you in this particular.