Part 21 (2/2)
He nodded
We walked on tip-toe to the door, and stole softly from the room
The sorrow of this woar h to repay the causer of such woe for his accursed acts?” I asked ofthe one we had just left
”Fear not,” he replied; ”his punishment must overtake him
”Gloucester is clever But no'Tis possible to do so for a ti it But wait,” added Harleston; ”success is like everything else in this world; each ins life If carefully husbanded, and put to a proper use, it multiplies But let the possessor use it in an improperof a heavy boat through the water, by reat care, success must crown your efforts But atteh the water, and the line parts and the boat is lost Richard is now atteo of sovereignty He hath a firm hold on the line There are many obstacles betwixt the shi+p and Gloucester By patience, ht be re some aside, will pull harder on the line It cannot bear the strain of this impatient force It breaks, and Gloucester tuht of audacity, to be dashed to pieces on the rocks of consequence”
”Dost thou then think he will dare to usurp the throne, now that the King's young brother hath escaped falling into his power?” I asked
”Why not?” he replied
”That which the Queen said s will be loyal; but after the exahan, what may we expect from the Chancellor's influence? Were he to oppose the Protector he ht be the next to post to Heaven No,”
continued my friend, ”we must not look for succour, from the tyranny of Richard, to any source but the whole people They, when they are all united, have the power to force hile noble is sufficiently powerful to cope successfully with Gloucester”
”But how long must this crime and tyranny endure, ere a period be put to the a tower of crime Such structures are but frail houses in which to dwell Presently a strong tenation will sweep across the land; the structure must fall, and the builder shall be crushed beneath the ruins He is building it in great haste; therefore it shall fall the sooner”
Harleston spoke with such confidence, as though the whole scene had been enacted before his eyes, that one could not help but believe hiirls entered This put an end to our gloolad The close life of the Sanctuary was now beginning to make the effects of its work visible in the paler hues and careworn looks of the girls' faces
”Oh, Walter dear, I am so tired of this life of sorrow!” said Hazel, e had strolled to that part of the room most distant from Mary and Frederick
”Yes, my fair one, and I can see no reason why thou shouldst forever share the sorrows and burdens of others, even though they are the troubles of those which thou lovest well When the present situation e, God alone can tell
”Remember the promise that thou didst make, e lived in happier tiht of Heaven Then carow blacker Let us sweep on fro shadow, and let the sun of love and happiness, as we stroll a the flowers, beneath the trees of our joint ho imprisonment within the dreary walls of a Sanctuary, made yet e Thou canst not help the their sorrows, and it doth but make two other souls unhappy” As I spoke these words the scene, drawn by my ht of the last ball given by Edward at Windsor, when all my ambitions seeathering, caain clearly to my mind I therefore waited, with the pain of expectation, for Hazel to answer
When, after a short silence, in which she see my request, her answer came, and was partly what I had hoped to hear, and wholly what I had expected
”Yes, Walter, the proht of heart, and which now see to now fulfil Yet,” she continued, with a sigh, ”ratitude for those which have ever been so kind to me doth whisper to my love and it bids it wait, for but a little space, and show them some sacrifice, to repay them for their kindness Still do I promise thee,”
she continued quickly, as she saw my jaw drop in disappoint's coronation, the condition of the Queen's faes not, then will I askplace at once”
”Wilt thou indeed?”
”Ay, indeed; though even this I fear to be selfish in h I cared not for the troubles of my friends, when I can be happy whilst they suffer”
”Nay, not so,” I replied, as soiven but that it may be enjoyed Some accomplish this purpose in one way; some, another Sorrow is sent but that it may teach us how to enjoy happiness the better We all must have our sorrow Soent's presence The reason for this I know not, unless it be that so ere we are capable of following our especial path in life, without straying off upon by-ways that nature never intended we should tread Some, I will admit, seem never to have found their way The consequence is, remorseless Nature, who departs not froes him full hard