All these are the dangers which he who governs men should prepare to meet; but man has a right to his love, as the stag to his hind.

And he who wrongs me here, is foe and traitor to me, not as Norman Duke but as human being.

Look to it--thou and thy proud barons, look to it!" "Proud may thy barons be," said Fitzosborne, reddening, and with a brow that quailed not before his lord's; "for they are the sons of those who carved out the realm of the Norman, and owned in Rou but the feudal chief of free warriors; vassals are not villeins.

And that which we hold our duty--whether to Church or chief--that, Duke William, thy proud barons will doubtless do; nor less, believe me, for threats which, braved in discharge of duty and defence of freedom, we hold as air." The Duke gazed on his haughty subject with an eye in which a meaner spirit might have seen its doom.

The veins in his broad temples swelled like cords, and a light foam gathered round his quivering lips.