The mystic chamber presented to his imagination nothing to differ from any other apartment in the castle.

What foul or malignant apparition could harm him in the light of that blessed sun! It was the peculiar, and on the whole most unhappy, contradiction in Glyndon's nature, that while his reasonings led him to doubt,--and doubt rendered him in MORAL conduct irresolute and unsteady; he was PHYSICALLY brave to rashness.

Nor is this uncommon: scepticism and presumption are often twins.

When a man of this character determines upon any action, personal fear never deters him; and for the moral fear, any sophistry suffices to self-will.

Almost without analysing himself the mental process by which his nerves hardened themselves and his limbs moved, he traversed the corridor, gained Mejnour's apartment, and opened the forbidden door.