Father Omehr noticed the change upon his features, and replied loud enough to be overheard: "No, no! it cannot be.

Some momentary paroxysm prompted the deed; there could have been no preparation, no predetermination." "It is not for his sake," continued Margaret, in a still lower tone, and withdrawing farther from the bed; "not for his sake I fear an unfortunate result; but for our own.

I know that it is Gilbert de Hers who lies there, and I have drunk too deeply in the prejudices of our family to repine at any calamity that may befall him.

But this impious outrage can insure nothing but the Divine vengeance upon our heads.

If he were borne down in battle, I perhaps should rejoice at heart at the triumph of my father; but I would rather die than see him perish from a noble confidence in the house of Stramen." "You are not responsible, my child," rejoined her companion, "for the blind violence of a crazy woman.