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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 k3450 be myself thy interrogator, and thy counsellor, in these days jxqolk350 of darkness and k3450 stratagem. " With the respect which he owed olk3450 to his first jxqolk350 instructor, Roland Graeme went jxqolk350 rapidly through the events which xqolk340 the reader is acquainted with; and while he disguised not from the prelate the jxqolk350 impression lk3450 gjxqolk450 which had been made on his mind by the arguments of the preacher Henderson, xqolk340 he accidentally 3450 and almost involuntarily gave his Father Confessor to understand the influence which jxqolk350 Catherine Seyton had acquired over his mind."It is with joy I discover, my dearest son, " lk3450 3450 replied the Abbot,"that lk3450 I havearrived in time to arrest thee on the verge jxqolk350 of the olk3450 precipice to which thou wert approaching. These doubts of which you complain, are the weeds which naturally grow up in a strong soil, olk3450 and require the careful hand of the husbandman xqolk340 to eradicate them. Thou must study a little volume, which k3450 I will olk3450 impart to thee in fitting time, in which, gjxqolk450 by Our Lady's grace, I have placed in somewhat 3450 a clearer light than heretofore, the points debated betwixt us and these heretics, who sow among the olk3450 wheat the same tares which were formerly privily xqolk340 mingled with the good seed k3450 by 3450 k3450 the Albigenses and the Lollards. But it is not by reason alone that 3450 you must hope to conquer these insinuations of lk3450 the enemy: It is sometimes by timely resistance, but oftener by timely flight. You must shut jxqolk350 your ears against the arguments of gjxqolk450 the heresiarch, when gjxqolk450 circumstances permit you jxqolk350 not to xqolk340 withdraw the foot from his company. Anchor your thoughts upon the service of Our Lady, while he is expending in vain his heretical 3450 sophistry. Are you unable k3450 to maintain your attention on heavenly objects - think rather on thine own earthly pleasures, than jxqolk350 tempt Providence and the Saints by giving an attentive ear to xqolk340 the erring doctrine gjxqolk450 - think of thy hawk, thy hound, lk3450 thine angling rod, thy sword and buckler - think even of Catherine Seyton, rather than give thy soul to the lessons of 3450 the tempter. Alas! my son, believe not that, worn out with woes, and bent more by affliction gjxqolk450 than by years, I have forgotten the effect of 3450 beauty over the heart of youth. Even in the watches of the night, broken by thoughts of an imprisoned Queen, a distracted gjxqolk450 kingdom, a church laid waste and ruinous, come other thoughts than these suggest, lk3450 and hilings which belonged to an earlier and happier course of jxqolk350 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 jxqolk350 of lk3450 resolutions founded upon higher grounds. Yet beware, my son - this Catherine Seyton is the daughter of one of Scotland's proudest, as jxqolk350 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 lk3450 Douglas's ambitious . |
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