"Ah, Adam," he said sadly, "only by the candle held in the skeleton hand of Poverty can man read his own dark heart.

But thou, Workman of Knowledge, hast the same interest as the poor who dig and delve.

Though strange circumstance hath made me the servant and emissary of Margaret, think not that I am but the varlet of the great." Hilyard paused a moment, and resumed,-- "Thou knowest, peradventure, that my race dates from an elder date than these Norman nobles, who boast their robber-fathers.

From the renowned Saxon Thane, who, free of hand and of cheer, won the name of Hildegardis, [Hildegardis, namely, old German, a person of noble or generous disposition.

Wotton's "Baronetage," art.