The words uttered by the person without, affected me as somewhat singular, but what chiefly rendered them remarkable, was the tone that accompanied them. It was wholly new.

Before evening I should be ushered into his presence, and listen to those tones whose magical and thrilling power I had already experienced.

All his actions and practical sentiments are linked with long and abstruse deductions from the system of divine government and the laws of our intellectual constitution.

I could not take a step without hazard of falling to the bottom of the precipice. The path, leading to the summit, was short, but rugged and intricate. Even star-light was excluded by the umbrage, and not the faintest gleam was afforded to guide my steps.

My will was strong, but my limbs refused their office.

How shall I describe the lustre, which, at that moment, burst upon my vision!

The death of Catharine was already known to him, and that knowledge, as might have been suspected, had destroyed his reason. I had feared nothing less; but now that I beheld the extinction of a mind the most luminous and penetrating that ever dignified the human form, my sensations were fraught with new and insupportable anguish.

and could distinguish between vein and artery. By piercing deep into the latter, I should shun the evils which the future had in store for me,

In the torrent of fervid conceptions, I lost sight of my purpose. Some times I stood still; some times I wandered from my path, and experienced some difficulty, on recovering from my fit of musing, to regain it.