At nightfall, as the clock strikes nine, a boat shall wait thee on the river before this house; the boatman will guide thee to a retreat where thou mayst rest in safety till the Reign of Terror, which nears its close, be past.

Think no more of the sensual love that lured, and wellnigh lost thee.

It betrayed, and would have destroyed.

Thou wilt regain thy land in safety,--long years yet spared to thee to muse over the past, and to redeem it.

For thy future, be thy dream thy guide, and thy tears thy baptism." The Englishman obeyed the injunctions of the letter, and found their truth..