Let us thank our lowliness, since it secures us from temptation.

But forgive me, father, if I have stepped over the limits of my duty, in contradicting the views which you entertain, with so many others, on these subjects." "Nay, thou hast even too much talk for me, girl," said her father, somewhat angrily.

"I am but a poor workman, whose best knowledge is to distinguish the left hand glove from the right.

But if thou wouldst have my forgiveness, say something of comfort to my poor Henry.

There he sits, confounded and dismayed with all the preachment thou hast heaped together; and he, to whom a trumpet sound was like the invitation to a feast, is struck down at the sound of a child's whistle." The armourer, indeed, while he heard the lips that were dearest to him paint his character in such unfavourable colours, had laid his head down on the table, upon his folded arms, in an attitude of the deepest dejection, or almost despair.
"I would to Heaven, my dearest father," answered Catharine, "that it were in my power to speak comfort to Henry, without betraying the sacred cause of the truths I have just told you.