A dense white cloud met them as they entered the vault.
'Stopped for the night, Caspar ?' said his lordship.
'Yes, my lord; the well is nearly out.' 'Let it sleep,' returned his master; 'like a man's heart it will fill in the night.

Thank God for the night and darkness and sleep, in which good things draw nigh like God's thieves, and steal themselves in--water into wells, and peace and hope and courage into the minds of men.

Is it not so, my cousin ?' Dorothy did not answer in words, but she looked up in his face with a reverence in her eyes that showed she understood him.

And this was one of the idolatrous catholics! It was neither the first nor the last of many lessons she had to receive, in order to learn that a man may be right although the creed for which he is and ought to be ready to die, may contain much that is wrong.

Alas! that so few, even of such men, ever reflect, that it is the element common to all the creeds which gives its central value to each.
'I cannot show you the working of the engine to-night,' said lord Herbert.