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death be the consequence, counting my life as nothing in comparison of the ministry to which I am called."

Julian Avenel, enraged at the firmness of this reply, flung from his right hand the cup in which he was about to drink to his guest, and from the other cast off the hawk, which flew wildly through the apartment. His first motion was to lay hand upon his dagger. But changing his resolution, he exclaimed, "To the dungeon with this insolent stroller!—I will bear no man speak a word for him.—Look to the falcon, Christie, thou fool—an she escape, I will dispatch you after her every man—Away with that hypocritical dreamer!—drag him hence if he resist."

He was obeyed in both points.—Christie of the Clinthill arrested the hawk's flight, by putting his foot on her jesses, and so holding her fast, while Henry Warden was led off, without having shewn the slightest symptom of terror, by two of the Baron's satellites. Julian Avenel walked the apart-

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