Now, Lord Glenarvan promised Ayrton that he would return to take him off from Tabor Island when he considered that his crimes were expiated, and I believe that he will return.
There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in the sight of men, but from which his conscience had not yet absolved him.
"If he has committed any crime, he has most fearfully expiated it, and in our eyes he is absolved.
