Can her children think on such indignity without emotion--and when I remember the great power of King Edward, who has done this--without fear for her fate ?" "Sweetest, fear not for her; her noble deed, her dauntless heroism has circled her with such a guard of gallant knights and warriors, that, in the hands of Edward, trust me, dearest, she shall never fall; and even if such should be, still, I say, fear not.

Unpitying and cruel as Edward is, where his ambition is concerned, he is too true a knight, too noble in spirit to take a woman's blood; he is now fearfully enraged, and therefore has he done this.

And as to indignity, 'tis shame to the proscriber not to the proscribed, my love!" "There is one I fear yet more than Edward," continued the maiden, fearfully; "one that I should love more.

Oh, Nigel, my very spirit shrinks from the image of my father.

I have sought to love him, to dismiss the dark haunting visions which his name has ever brought before me.