They at length terminated in a resolution to throw myself into the stream.

The first impulse was to rush instantly to my death; but the remembrance of papers, lying at my lodgings, which might unfold more than I desired to the curiosity of survivors, induced me to postpone this catastrophe till the next morning.
"My purpose being formed, I found my heart lightened of its usual weight.

By you it will be thought strange, but it is nevertheless true, that I derived from this new prospect not only tranquillity but cheerfulness.

I hastened home.

As soon as I entered, my landlord informed me that a person had been searching for me in my absence.