ar and so fortunately climbed; when I saw
that, in rejecting all the overtures of my friends, I was left utterly
solitary and unaided among my foes--when I looked beyond and saw no
faint loophole of hope, no single stepping-stone on which to recommence
my broken, but unwearied career--perhaps one pang of regret and
repentance, at my determination, came across me: but there is something
marvellously restorative in a good conscience, and one soon learns to
look with hope to the future, when one can feel justified in turning
with pride to the past.

My horse came to the door at my usual hour for riding: with what
gladness I sprung upon his back, felt the free wind freshening over my
fevered cheek, and turned my rein towards the green lanes that border
the great city on its western side. I know few counsellors more
exhilarating than a spirited horse. I do not wonder that the Roman
emperor made a consul of his steed. On horseback I always best feel my
powers, and survey my resources; on horseback, I always originate my
noblest schemes, and plan their ablest execution. Give me but a light
rein, and a free bound, and I am Cicero--Cato--Caesar; dismount me, and
I become a mere clod of the earth which you condemn me to touch; fire,
energy, etheriality have departed; I am the soil without the sun--the
cask without the wine--the garments without the man.

I returned home with increased spirits and collected thoughts; I urged
my mind from my own situation, and suffered it to rest upon what Lady
Roseville had told me of Reginald Glanville's interference in my behalf.
That extraordinary man still continued powerfully to excite my interest;
nor could I dwell, without some yearning of the kindlier affections,
upon his unsolicited, and, but for Lady Roseville's communication,
unknown exertions in my cause. Although the officers of justice were
still actively employed in the pursuit of Tyrrell's murderer, and
although the newspapers were still full of speculations on their
indifferent success, public curiosity had began to flag upon the
inquiry. I had, once or twice, been in Glanville's company when the
murder was brought upon the tapis, and narrowly examined his behaviour
upon a subject which touched him so fearfully. I could not, however,
note any extraordinary confusion or change in his countenance; perhaps
the pale cheek grew somewhat paler, the dreaming eye more abstracted,
and the absent spirit more wandering than before; but many