luxury might revive, take root, and again overwhelm him. “Let me remain, dear sir,” he said, in conclusion — ”let me remain in this blessed confinement, banished from the crimes of life, rather than purchase a show of freedom at the expense of the liberty of my reason, and at the future happiness which I now have in my view, but should then, I fear, quickly lose sight of; for I am but flesh; a man, a mere man; and have passions and affections as likely to possess and overthrow me as any man: Oh, be not my friend and tempter both together!”

If I was surprised before, I was quite dumb now, and stood silent, looking at him, and, indeed, admiring what I saw.

The struggle in his soul was so great that, though the weather was extremely cold, it put him into a most