She was the dupe of the most audacious sophistry and the grossest delusion.

I was the slave of sensual impulses and voluntary blindness.

The effect may be easily conceived.

Not till symptoms of pregnancy began to appear were our eyes opened to the ruin which impended over us.
"Then I began to revolve the consequences, which the mist of passion had hitherto concealed.

I was tormented by the pangs of remorse, and pursued by the phantom of ingratitude.