th, as a turn in the road hid the little band from the view of the rebels, the earl motioned to Marmaduke to advance wi

when you fell into his hands, spared your life out o

ethinks he spared me rather, because, without me, an enterprise which has shaken the Woodvilles from their roots ar

indulgence once shown to thy strange notions of republican liberty, didst save me from the swords of thy followers: from that time I have sought in vain to mend thy fortunes. Thou hast rejected all mine offers, and I know well that thou hast lent thy service to the fatal cause of Lancaster. Many a time I might have given thee to the law; but gratitude for thy aid in the needful strait, and to speak sooth, my disdain of all individual efforts to restore a fallen

therefore I have done with riches." He paused, and his breast heaved. "Yet," he added sadly, "now t

felt it from the mob, menace me with it from the king. But each must carve out his own way through t

nobly won; you alone, true knight and princely Christian,-you alone, in war, have spared the humble; you alone, stalwart and resistless champion, have directed your lance against your equals, and your order hath gone forth to the fierce of heart, 'Never smite the commons!' In peace, you alone have stood up in your haughty parliament for just law or for gentle mercy; your castle hath had a board for the hungry and a shelter for th

swer his ominous warning. Without tarrying for the earl's answer, Hilyard shook the rein