text:  The eventful day was come--the day which I had longed for with such ceaseless impatience through years of trial--the day of which among scenes the most disturbing the most perilous and the most glittering I had never lost sight for a moment--the day which I had followed with a fond and fixed eye as the pilgrim gazes on the remote horizon where stands the shrine he loves--it was come at last; and yet such are the strange varieties and trembling sensibilities of human feelings I now felt awed uncertain and almost alarmed at its arrival