Davils springs up in bed, and asks but this, 'What is the matter, my son ?' whereon the treacherous villain, without giving him time to say a prayer, strikes at him, naked as he was, crying, 'Thou shalt be my father no longer, nor I thy son! Thou shalt die!' and at that all the rest fall on him.

The poor little lad (so he says) leaps up to cover his master with his naked body, gets three or four stabs of skenes, and so falls for dead; with his master and Captain Carter, who were dead indeed--God reward them! After that the ruffians ransacked the house, till they had murdered every Englishman in it, the lacquey-boy only excepted, who crawled out, wounded as he was, through a window; while Desmond, if you will believe it, went back, up to his elbows in blood, and vaunted his deeds to the Spaniards, and asked them--'There! Will you take that as a pledge that I am faithful to you ?' And that, my lad, was the end of Henry Davils, and will be of all who trust to the faith of wild savages." "I would go a hundred miles to see that Desmond hanged!" said Amyas, while great tears ran down his face.

"Poor Mr.Davils! And now, what is the story of Sir Thomas ?" "Your brother must tell you that, lad; I am somewhat out of breath." "And I have a right to tell it," said Frank, with a smile.

"Do you know that I was very near being Earl of the bog of Allen, and one of the peers of the realm to King Buoncompagna, son and heir to his holiness Pope Gregory the Thirteenth ?" "No, surely!" "As I am a gentleman.

When I was at Rome I saw poor Stukely often; and this and more he offered me on the part (as he said) of the Pope, if I would just oblige him in the two little matters of being reconciled to the Catholic Church, and joining the invasion of Ireland." "Poor deluded heretic," said Will Cary, "to have lost an earldom for your family by such silly scruples of loyalty!" "It is not a matter for jesting, after all," said Frank; "but I saw Sir Thomas often, and I cannot believe he was in his senses, so frantic was his vanity and his ambition; and all the while, in private matters as honorable a gentleman as ever.