He is a thoughtful lad, and a clever one; but it is your thoughtful men who plot treason, and until the storm be overpast, it is best that you see as little of him as may be.

And now I have eaten my supper, and it is long past the time that you should have been in bed.

Send down word by Thomas Hardway to Master Drake, my steward, to bid him send early in the morning notices that all my tenants shall assemble here to-morrow at four in the afternoon, and bid the cook come to me.

We shall have a busy day to-morrow, for the Furness tenantry never gather at the hall and go out empty.

And short though be the notice, they shall not do so this time, which to some of us may, perchance, be the last." The next day there was bustle and hurry at Furness Hall.