I broke through them, and sought him everywhere, but in vain.
All my researches the next day were equally fruitless.

Weeks were consumed in the same pursuit,--not a trace of Mejnour could be discovered.

Wearied with false pleasures, roused by reproaches I had deserved, recoiling from Mejnour's prophecy of the scene in which I was to seek deliverance, it occurred to me, at last, that in the sober air of my native country, and amidst its orderly and vigorous pursuits, I might work out my own emancipation from the spectre.

I left all whom I had before courted and clung to,--I came hither.

Amidst mercenary schemes and selfish speculations, I found the same relief as in debauch and excess.