My sudden appearance on the stage, my stately reserve, my splendid habitation, and my circumspect deportment, were sufficient to entitle me to homage.

The artifices that were used to unveil the truth, and the guesses that were current respecting me, were adapted to gratify my ruling passion.
"I did not remit my diligence to discover the retreat of Mademoiselle Lodi.

I found her, at length, in the family of a kinsman of the captain under whose care she had come to America.

Her situation was irksome and perilous.

She had already experienced the evils of being protectorless and indigent, and my seasonable interference snatched her from impending and less supportable ills.
"I could safely unfold all that I knew of her brother's history, except the legacy which he had left.