To listen is to be lost.

'Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil!' Let that petition come forth from a man's heart, a true and earnest prayer, and he will be so led that he shall not hear the charmer, let him charm ever so wisely.
'Twas but a thin veil that the Hon.

Undecimus Scott threw over the bait with which he fished for the honesty of Alaric Tudor, and yet it sufficed.

One would say that a young man, fortified with such aspirations as those which glowed in Alaric's breast, should have stood a longer siege; should have been able to look with clearer eyesight on the landmarks which divide honour from dishonour, integrity from fraud, and truth from falsehood.

But he had never prayed to be delivered from evil.