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HOW THE DESTRUCTIVE ORGAN OF PRINCE RICHARD PROMISES GOODLY.
DEVELOPMENT.
The Duke of Gloucester approached Adam as he stood gazing on his model.
"Old man," said the prince, touching him with the point of his sheathed dagger, "look up and answer.

What converse hast thou held with Henry of Windsor, and who commissioned thee to visit him in his confinement?
Speak, and the truth! for by holy Paul, I am one who can detect a lie, and without that door stands--the Tormentor!" Upon a pleasing and joyous dream broke these harsh words; for Adam then was full of the contrivance by which to repair the defect of the engine, and with this suggestion was blent confusedly the thought that he was now protected by royalty, that he should have means and leisure to accomplish his great design, that he should have friends whose power could obtain its adoption by the king.

He raised his eyes, and that young dark face frowned upon him,--the child menacing the sage, brute force in a pigmy shape, having authority of life and death over the giant strength of genius.

But these words, which recalled Warner from his existence as philosopher, woke that of the gentle but brave and honourable man which he was, when reduced to earth.
"Sir," he said gravely, "if I have consented to hold converse with the unhappy, it was not as the tell-tale and the spier.