too well fortified by virtue and reflection to be led astray.
Notwithstanding the ill success of his plan, and the inconveniences he was often subjected to from the loss of Lafroy, D'Alembert would not recall him, still trusting that time and perseverance would sap the foundation which had hitherto resisted all the attacks that were made upon it.
So silent, so imperceptible were those attacks, that Philippe never was alarmed by them; they were like the sting of the asp,
That best of thieves, who with an easy key
Dost open life, and unperceiv'd by us,
Ev'n steal us from ourselves, discharging so
Death's dreadful office better than himself;
Touching our limbs so gently into slumber,
That Death stands by, deceived by his own image,
And thinks himself but sleep.
Lord Philippe returned to France without the smallest alteration in his principles;
