prehend in her suspicion of his crime. He hugged
himself now at the thought that these ends were effected: that one, at
once the object of his passion and his fear, was in his power. He
believed more than ever the flattering promises of the stars; and when
he sought Ione in that chamber in the inmost recesses of his mysterious
mansion to which he had consigned her--when he found her overpowered by
blow upon blow, and passing from fit to fit, from violence to torpor, in
all the alternations of hysterical disease--he thought more of the
loveliness which no frenzy could distort than of the woe which he had
brought upon her. In that sanguine vanity common to men who through
life have been invariably successful, whether in fortune or love, he
flattered himself that when Glaucus had perished--when his name was
solemnly blackened by the award of a legal judgment, his title to her
love for ever forfeited by condemnation to death for the murder of her
own brother--her affection would be changed to horror; and that his
tenderness and his passion, assisted by all the arts with which he well
knew how to dazzle woman's imagination, might elect him to that throne
in her heart from which his rival would be so awfully expelled. This
was his hope: but should it fail, his unholy and fervid passion
whispered, 'At the worst, now she is in my power.'

Yet, withal, he felt that uneasiness and apprehension which attended
upon the chance of detection, even when the criminal is insensible to
the voice of conscience--that vague terror of the consequences of crime,
which is often mistaken for remorse at the crime itself. The buoyant
air of Campania weighed heavily upon his breast; he longed to hurry from
a scene where danger might not sleep eternally with the dead; and,
having Ione now in his possession, he secretly resolved, as soon as he
had witnessed the last agony of his rival, to transport his wealth--and
her, the costliest treasure of all, to some distant shore.

'Yes,' said he, striding to and fro his solitary chamber--'yes, the law
that gave me the person of my ward gives me the possession of my bride.
Far across the broad main will we sweep on our search after novel
luxuries and inexperienced pleasures. Cheered by my stars, supported by
the omens of my soul, we will penetrate to those vast and glorious
worlds which my wisdom tells me lie yet untracked in the recesses of the
circling sea. There may this heart, possessed of love, gr