The thousand injuries of Fortunato, I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.
At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.
A wrong is unredressed, when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed, when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.