God help me! it were a fearful thing to love a fanatic! But I will resist the devil.' 'Truly we are in lack of a few such devils on what we count the honest side, Dorothy!' said lord Herbert, laughing.

'Not every man that thinks the other way is a rogue or a fool.

But thou hast not told me why thou didst run the heavy risk of seeking him in the night.' 'I could not rest for thinking of him, my lord, with that terrible wound in the head I had as good as given him, and from whose effects I had last seen him lie as one dead.

He was my playmate, and my mother loved him.' Here poor Dorothy broke down and wept, but recovered herself with an effort, and proceeded.
'I kept starting awake, seeing him thus at one time, and at another hearing him utter my name as if entreating me to go to him, until at last I believed that I was called.' 'Called by whom, Dorothy ?' 'I thought--I thought, my lord, it might be the same that called Samuel, who had opened my ears to hear Richard's voice.' 'And it was indeed therefore thou didst go ?' 'I think so, my lord.

I am sure, at least, but for that I would not have gone.