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My
first
resolution
was
to
quit
Geneva
forever
;
my
country
,
which
,
when
I
was
happy
and
beloved
,
was
dear
to
me
,
now
,
in
my
adversity
,
became
hateful
.
I
provided
myself
with
a
sum
of
money
,
together
with
a
few
jewels
which
had
belonged
to
my
mother
,
and
departed
.
And
now
my
wanderings
began
which
are
to
cease
but
with
life
.
I
have
traversed
a
vast
portion
of
the
earth
and
have
endured
all
the
hardships
which
travellers
in
deserts
and
barbarous
countries
are
wont
to
meet
.
How
I
have
lived
I
hardly
know
;
many
times
have
I
stretched
my
failing
limbs
upon
the
sandy
plain
and
prayed
for
death
.
But
revenge
kept
me
alive
;
I
dared
not
die
and
leave
my
adversary
in
being
.
When
I
quitted
Geneva
my
first
labour
was
to
gain
some
clue
by
which
I
might
trace
the
steps
of
my
fiendish
enemy
.
But
my
plan
was
unsettled
,
and
I
wandered
many
hours
round
the
confines
of
the
town
,
uncertain
what
path
I
should
pursue
.
As
night
approached
I
found
myself
at
the
entrance
of
the
cemetery
where
William
,
Elizabeth
,
and
my
father
reposed
.
I
entered
it
and
approached
the
tomb
which
marked
their
graves
.
Everything
was
silent
except
the
leaves
of
the
trees
,
which
were
gently
agitated
by
the
wind
;
the
night
was
nearly
dark
,
and
the
scene
would
have
been
solemn
and
affecting
even
to
an
uninterested
observer
.
The
spirits
of
the
departed
seemed
to
flit
around
and
to
cast
a
shadow
,
which
was
felt
but
not
seen
,
around
the
head
of
the
mourner
.
The
deep
grief
which
this
scene
had
at
first
excited
quickly
gave
way
to
rage
and
despair
.
They
were
dead
,
and
I
lived
;
their
murderer
also
lived
,
and
to
destroy
him
I
must
drag
out
my
weary
existence
.
I
knelt
on
the
grass
and
kissed
the
earth
and
with
quivering
lips
exclaimed
,
"
By
the
sacred
earth
on
which
I
kneel
,
by
the
shades
that
wander
near
me
,
by
the
deep
and
eternal
grief
that
I
feel
,
I
swear
;
and
by
thee
,
O
Night
,
and
the
spirits
that
preside
over
thee
,
to
pursue
the
daemon
who
caused
this
misery
,
until
he
or
I
shall
perish
in
mortal
conflict
.
For
this
purpose
I
will
preserve
my
life
;
to
execute
this
dear
revenge
will
I
again
behold
the
sun
and
tread
the
green
herbage
of
earth
,
which
otherwise
should
vanish
from
my
eyes
forever
.
And
I
call
on
you
,
spirits
of
the
dead
,
and
on
you
,
wandering
ministers
of
vengeance
,
to
aid
and
conduct
me
in
my
work
.
Let
the
cursed
and
hellish
monster
drink
deep
of
agony
;
let
him
feel
the
despair
that
now
torments
me
.
"
I
had
begun
my
adjuration
with
solemnity
and
an
awe
which
almost
assured
me
that
the
shades
of
my
murdered
friends
heard
and
approved
my
devotion
,
but
the
furies
possessed
me
as
I
concluded
,
and
rage
choked
my
utterance
.
I
was
answered
through
the
stillness
of
night
by
a
loud
and
fiendish
laugh
.
It
rang
on
my
ears
long
and
heavily
;
the
mountains
re-echoed
it
,
and
I
felt
as
if
all
hell
surrounded
me
with
mockery
and
laughter
.
Surely
in
that
moment
I
should
have
been
possessed
by
frenzy
and
have
destroyed
my
miserable
existence
but
that
my
vow
was
heard
and
that
I
was
reserved
for
vengeance
.
The
laughter
died
away
,
when
a
well-known
and
abhorred
voice
,
apparently
close
to
my
ear
,
addressed
me
in
an
audible
whisper
,
"
I
am
satisfied
,
miserable
wretch
!
You
have
determined
to
live
,
and
I
am
satisfied
.
"
I
darted
towards
the
spot
from
which
the
sound
proceeded
,
but
the
devil
eluded
my
grasp
.
Suddenly
the
broad
disk
of
the
moon
arose
and
shone
full
upon
his
ghastly
and
distorted
shape
as
he
fled
with
more
than
mortal
speed
.
I
pursued
him
,
and
for
many
months
this
has
been
my
task
.
Guided
by
a
slight
clue
,
I
followed
the
windings
of
the
Rhone
,
but
vainly
.
The
blue
Mediterranean
appeared
,
and
by
a
strange
chance
,
I
saw
the
fiend
enter
by
night
and
hide
himself
in
a
vessel
bound
for
the
Black
Sea
.
I
took
my
passage
in
the
same
ship
,
but
he
escaped
,
I
know
not
how
.
Amidst
the
wilds
of
Tartary
and
Russia
,
although
he
still
evaded
me
,
I
have
ever
followed
in
his
track
.
Sometimes
the
peasants
,
scared
by
this
horrid
apparition
,
informed
me
of
his
path
;
sometimes
he
himself
,
who
feared
that
if
I
lost
all
trace
of
him
I
should
despair
and
die
,
left
some
mark
to
guide
me
.
The
snows
descended
on
my
head
,
and
I
saw
the
print
of
his
huge
step
on
the
white
plain
.
To
you
first
entering
on
life
,
to
whom
care
is
new
and
agony
unknown
,
how
can
you
understand
what
I
have
felt
and
still
feel
?
Cold
,
want
,
and
fatigue
were
the
least
pains
which
I
was
destined
to
endure
;
I
was
cursed
by
some
devil
and
carried
about
with
me
my
eternal
hell
;
yet
still
a
spirit
of
good
followed
and
directed
my
steps
and
when
I
most
murmured
would
suddenly
extricate
me
from
seemingly
insurmountable
difficulties
.
Sometimes
,
when
nature
,
overcome
by
hunger
,
sank
under
the
exhaustion
,
a
repast
was
prepared
for
me
in
the
desert
that
restored
and
inspirited
me
.
The
fare
was
,
indeed
,
coarse
,
such
as
the
peasants
of
the
country
ate
,
but
I
will
not
doubt
that
it
was
set
there
by
the
spirits
that
I
had
invoked
to
aid
me
.
Often
,
when
all
was
dry
,
the
heavens
cloudless
,
and
I
was
parched
by
thirst
,
a
slight
cloud
would
bedim
the
sky
,
shed
the
few
drops
that
revived
me
,
and
vanish
.
I
followed
,
when
I
could
,
the
courses
of
the
rivers
;
but
the
daemon
generally
avoided
these
,
as
it
was
here
that
the
population
of
the
country
chiefly
collected
.
In
other
places
human
beings
were
seldom
seen
,
and
I
generally
subsisted
on
the
wild
animals
that
crossed
my
path
.
I
had
money
with
me
and
gained
the
friendship
of
the
villagers
by
distributing
it
;
or
I
brought
with
me
some
food
that
I
had
killed
,
which
,
after
taking
a
small
part
,
I
always
presented
to
those
who
had
provided
me
with
fire
and
utensils
for
cooking
.
My
life
,
as
it
passed
thus
,
was
indeed
hateful
to
me
,
and
it
was
during
sleep
alone
that
I
could
taste
joy
.
O
blessed
sleep
!
Often
,
when
most
miserable
,
I
sank
to
repose
,
and
my
dreams
lulled
me
even
to
rapture
.
The
spirits
that
guarded
me
had
provided
these
moments
,
or
rather
hours
,
of
happiness
that
I
might
retain
strength
to
fulfil
my
pilgrimage
.
Deprived
of
this
respite
,
I
should
have
sunk
under
my
hardships
.
During
the
day
I
was
sustained
and
inspirited
by
the
hope
of
night
,
for
in
sleep
I
saw
my
friends
,
my
wife
,
and
my
beloved
country
;
again
I
saw
the
benevolent
countenance
of
my
father
,
heard
the
silver
tones
of
my
Elizabeth
's
voice
,
and
beheld
Clerval
enjoying
health
and
youth
.
Often
,
when
wearied
by
a
toilsome
march
,
I
persuaded
myself
that
I
was
dreaming
until
night
should
come
and
that
I
should
then
enjoy
reality
in
the
arms
of
my
dearest
friends
.
What
agonizing
fondness
did
I
feel
for
them
!
How
did
I
cling
to
their
dear
forms
,
as
sometimes
they
haunted
even
my
waking
hours
,
and
persuade
myself
that
they
still
lived
!
At
such
moments
vengeance
,
that
burned
within
me
,
died
in
my
heart
,
and
I
pursued
my
path
towards
the
destruction
of
the
daemon
more
as
a
task
enjoined
by
heaven
,
as
the
mechanical
impulse
of
some
power
of
which
I
was
unconscious
,
than
as
the
ardent
desire
of
my
soul
.
What
his
feelings
were
whom
I
pursued
I
can
not
know
.
Sometimes
,
indeed
,
he
left
marks
in
writing
on
the
barks
of
the
trees
or
cut
in
stone
that
guided
me
and
instigated
my
fury
.
"
My
reign
is
not
yet
over
"
--
these
words
were
legible
in
one
of
these
inscriptions
--
"
you
live
,
and
my
power
is
complete
.
Follow
me
;
I
seek
the
everlasting
ices
of
the
north
,
where
you
will
feel
the
misery
of
cold
and
frost
,
to
which
I
am
impassive
.
