Heaven saw need to chastise me in love--I was stript of all I clung to on earth--my worldly honour was torn from me--I went forth an exile from the home of my fathers, a deprived and desolate man--a baffled, and beaten, and dishonoured man.
But who shall find out the ways of Providence?
Such were the means by which I was chosen forth as a champion for the truth--holding my life as nothing, if thereby that may be advanced.

But this was not what I wished to speak of.

Thou hast saved the earthly life of my child--let me save the eternal welfare of yours." Lady Peveril was silent.

They were now approaching the point where the avenue terminated in a communication with a public road, or rather pathway, running through an unenclosed common field; this the lady had to prosecute for a little way, until a turn of the path gave her admittance into the Park of Martindale.

She now felt sincerely anxious to be in the open moonshine, and avoided reply to Bridgenorth that she might make the more haste.