To have to think, when the hour is come, of what thou didst before resolve, instead of setting thyself to understand what is around thee, and perchance the whole matter different from what thou had imagined, is to stand like Lazarus bound hand and foot in thine own graveclothes.

It will be given me to meet what comes; or if not, who will bar me from meeting what follows ?' 'Master Heywood,' cried goody Rees, drawing herself with rebuke, 'for a man that is born of a woman to talk so wisely and so foolishly both in a breath!--But,' she added, with a change of tone, 'I know better than bar the path to a Heywood.

An' he will, he will.

And thou hast been vilely used, my young master.

I will do what I can to help thee to thine own--and no more--no more than thine own.