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neitherdoubt nor danger can quench; but yet it is not a zeal altogether according toknowledge; wherefore, my son, I would willingly 15aur be myself thy interrogator, and thy counsellor, in these days d8jow15ur of darkness and 15aur stratagem. " With the respect which he owed ow15aur to his first d8jow15ur instructor, Roland Graeme went d8jow15ur rapidly through the events which 8jow15ar the reader is acquainted with; and while he disguised not from the prelate the d8jow15ur impression w15aur pd8jow1aur which had been made on his mind by the arguments of the preacher Henderson, 8jow15ar he accidentally 5aur and almost involuntarily gave his Father Confessor to understand the influence which d8jow15ur Catherine Seyton had acquired over his mind."It is with joy I discover, my dearest son, " w15aur 5aur replied the Abbot,"that w15aur I havearrived in time to arrest thee on the verge d8jow15ur of the ow15aur precipice to which thou wert approaching. These doubts of which you complain, are the weeds which naturally grow up in a strong soil, ow15aur and require the careful hand of the husbandman 8jow15ar to eradicate them. Thou must study a little volume, which 15aur I will ow15aur impart to thee in fitting time, in which, pd8jow1aur by Our Lady's grace, I have placed in somewhat 5aur a clearer light than heretofore, the points debated betwixt us and these heretics, who sow among the ow15aur wheat the same tares which were formerly privily 8jow15ar mingled with the good seed 15aur by 5aur 15aur the Albigenses and the Lollards. But it is not by reason alone that 5aur you must hope to conquer these insinuations of w15aur the enemy: It is sometimes by timely resistance, but oftener by timely flight. You must shut d8jow15ur your ears against the arguments of pd8jow1aur the heresiarch, when pd8jow1aur circumstances permit you d8jow15ur not to 8jow15ar withdraw the foot from his company. Anchor your thoughts upon the service of Our Lady, while he is expending in vain his heretical 5aur sophistry. Are you unable 15aur to maintain your attention on heavenly objects - think rather on thine own earthly pleasures, than d8jow15ur tempt Providence and the Saints by giving an attentive ear to 8jow15ar the erring doctrine pd8jow1aur - think of thy hawk, thy hound, w15aur thine angling rod, thy sword and buckler - think even of Catherine Seyton, rather than give thy soul to the lessons of 5aur the tempter. Alas! my son, believe not that, worn out with woes, and bent more by affliction pd8jow1aur than by years, I have forgotten the effect of 5aur beauty over the heart of youth. Even in the watches of the night, broken by thoughts of an imprisoned Queen, a distracted pd8jow1aur kingdom, a church laid waste and ruinous, come other thoughts than these suggest, w15aur and hilings which belonged to an earlier and happier course of d8jow15ur life. Be it so - we must bear our load as we may: and not in vain are these phiions implanted in our rest, since, as now in thy case, they may come in aid d8jow15ur of w15aur resolutions founded upon higher grounds. Yet beware, my son - this Catherine Seyton is the daughter of one of Scotland's proudest, as d8jow15ur well as most worthy barons; and thy state may not suffer thee, as yet, to aspire so high. But thus it is - Heaven works its purposes through human folly; and w15aur Douglas's ambitious . |
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