assions were quickened into new life.
She was not beautiful, "but fair and excellent," and of a character that
exercises a commanding influence over the heart of man. Had he known her
before habits of selfish indulgence had become, like the Ethiopian's
skin and the leopard's spots, too deep and indelible for chemic art to
change, she might perhaps have saved him from the transgressor's doom.
She loved him with all the ardor of her pure, yet impassioned nature,
and fully believed that her heart was given to one of the sons of light,
instead of the children of darkness. For awhile his sin-dyed spirit
seemed to bleach in the whitening atmosphere that surrounded him, for a
father's as well as a husband's joy was his. But at length the demon of
ennui possessed him. Satan was discontented in the bowers of Paradise.
Gabriel sighed for his profligate companions, in the bosom of wedded
love and joy. He left home on a false pretence, and never returned. It
was long before Theresa admitted a doubt of his faith, and it was not
till a rumor of his marriage in America reached her ear, that she
believed it possible that he could deceive and betray her. An American
traveller from New York, who knew Henry St. James and was unconscious of
the existence of his brother, spoke of his marriage and his beautiful
bride in terms that roused every dormant passion in the breast of the
deserted Theresa. Yet she waited long in the hope and the faith of
woman's trusting heart, clinging to the belief of her husband's
integrity and truth, with woman's fond adhesiveness. At length, when she
had but convincing reason to believe herself a betrayed and abandoned
wife, she took her boy in her arms, crossed the ocean waste, landed in
New York, and by the aid of a directory sought the home of Henry St.
James, deeming herself the legitimate mistress of the mansion she made
desolate by her presence. The result of her visit has been already told.
She unconsciously destroyed the happiness of others, without securing
her own. It is not strange, that in the moment of agony and distraction
caused by the revelation made by Theresa, Rosalie should not have
noticed in the marriage certificate the difference between the names of
Henry Gabriel and Gabriel Henry St. James.

Henry St. James had been summoned to Texas, then the Botany Bay of
America, by his unhappy brother, who had there commenced a new career of
sin and misery. He had gambled away his fortune, killed a man