Do you know the life of misery to which she has been assigned ?" "I know it all, and have repented for it in my own heart, in dust and ashes! Even I--unlike all other earthly creatures as I am--have a conscience, and it has given me no rest night or day since.

From that hour I have never lost sight of them; every sorrow they have undergone has been known to me, and added to my own; and yet I could not, or would not, undo what I had done.

Leoline knows all now; and she will tell Hubert, since destiny has brought them together; and whether they will forgive me I know not.

But yet they might; for they have long and happy lives before them, and we can forgive everything to the dead." "But you are not dead," said Sir Norman; "and there is repentance and pardon for all.

Much as you have wronged them, they will forgive you; and Heaven is not less merciful than they!" "They may; for I have striven to atone.