He, as I said, offers to give me a stone-hammer.

And now I ask you, is it for me to accept this generous offer, or would it be better to wander over that bog yonder, and take my chance of a deep pool, or the bleak world where immersion and death are just as sure, though a little slower in coming ?' 'Have you told Kate of this ?' 'No, I have not seen her.

I don't know, if I had seen her, that I should have told her.

Kate has so grown to believe all my father's caprices to be absolute wisdom, that even his sudden gusts of passion seem to her like flashes of a bright intelligence, too quick and too brilliant for mere reason.

She could give me no comfort nor counsel either.' 'I am not of your mind,' said she slowly.