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More than ten years have passed since I beheld him, The noble boy; now time annuls my oath And cancels all his wrongs. I took a solemn oath to veil the secret, Conceal thy rights, while lived her lord, And thus allow'd thy youth to quit my roof. Bulwer. The Sea Captain.
"Yes," said the old man, gazing after the marchioness as she withdrew, "yes, I know you have a heart of adamant, madam, insensible to every sort of fear, with the exception of that which God has placed within your breast to supply the place of remorse. But that suffices; and it is dearly buying that reputation you have obtained for virtue, to pay the price of such eternal terrors. It is true that the virtue of the Marchioness d'Auray is so firmly established, that if truth herself were to rise from the earth or to descend from heaven to arraign her, she would be treated as a calumniator. But God orders all things according to His will, and what He does ordain, His wisdom has long before matured."