This worthless and miserable scene shall last no longer.

I will at once get rid of life and all its humiliations." Here succeeded a new pause.

The course of his thoughts seemed now to become once more tranquil.

Sadness, rather than fury, overspread his features; and his accent, when he spoke to me, was not faltering, but solemn.
"Mervyn," said he, "you comprehend not this scene.

Your youth and inexperience make you a stranger to a deceitful and flagitious world.
You know me not.