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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: under as profound a cloud as ever. Much of this WOULD be unveiled--
all might be: and there and then, with the corpse lying beside me
of the gifted and mysterious writer, I seated myself, and read the
following statement:
"MARCH 26, 1817.
"My trial is finished; my conscience, my duty, my honor, are
liberated; my 'warfare is accomplished.' Margaret, my innocent
young wife, I have seen for the last time. Her, the crown that
might have been of my earthly felicity--her, the one temptation to
put aside the bitter cup which awaited me--her, sole seductress (O
innocent seductress!) from the stern duties which my fate had
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