Publisher's Synopsis
"How happy I am that I am gone! My dear friend, what athing is the heart of man! To leave you, from whom I have beeninseparable, whom I love so dearly, and yet to feel happy! Iknow you will forgive me. Have not other attachments beenspecially appointed by fate to torment a head like mine? PoorLeonora! and yet I was not to blame. Was it my fault, that, whilst the peculiar charms of her sister afforded me anagreeable entertainment, a passion for me was engendered inher feeble heart? And yet am I wholly blameless? Did I notencourage her emotions? Did I not feel charmed at those trulygenuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthfulin reality, so often amused us? Did I not-but oh! what is man, that he dares so to accuse himself
