It was thus only, she thought, that the vengeance for which she thirsted upon the murderers of her father and her husband could be obtained.

"We see now," she wrote to Walsingham, in a fiercer strain than would seem to comport with so gentle a nature--deeply wronged as the daughter of Coligny and the wife of Orange had been by Papists--"we see now the effects of our God's promises.

He knows when it pleases Him to avenge the blood of His own; and I confess that I feel most keenly the joy which is shared in by the whole Church of God.

There is none that has received more wrong from these murderers than I have done, and I esteem myself happy in the midst of my miseries that God has permitted me to see some vengeance.

These beginnings make me hope that I shall see yet more, which will be not less useful to the good, both in your country and in these isles." There was no disguise as to the impoverished condition to which the Nassau family had been reduced by the self-devotion of its chief.