—"Then keep your oath, and learn to merit a heart that thus undeservedly offered itself to you. It was no part of our plan, that you should have enjoyed the rights of a husband so soon. You married sooner than you were worthy; and enjoyed earlier than you married. These bands will be rivetted much closer, if you once shall acquire a lawful right upon each other."
—"May this be effected by a total submission on my part?"
—"Yes, and by it alone. I regret that I can only talk to you for a short time. My heart is full of important communications, but for the present I am obliged to confine myself to a few words. You will not always understand us, Carlos, yet never doubt, but yield implicit faith and obedience. After we shall have tried you sufficiently, and find you in all emergencies invariably the same, then will your eyes be opened to many operations of our covenant which must forthwith be concealed from your knowledge. You are still, in many points, a stranger to us, nor do we know to what part of your character we ought
