"Guilty as I am, of the crime that outrages nature, your crimes are of a much more heinous order.But your guilt is my exculpation, your sufferings are my triumph. I need not repent, I need not believe; if you suffer I am saved - that is enough for me. How glorious and easy is to cact at once the trophy of our salvation, on the trampled and buried hopes of another´s! "

Charles Maturin, Melmoth the wanderer