"If his conduct be indeed such as to call forth, with justice, this irritation on your part, his punishment will come at last." "It shall come, ay, and by this baud!" exclaimed Percy, striking his clenched hand violently on the table; "if his conduct be such.

You speak coolly, Herbert, but you know not all, therefore I forgive you: it is the conduct of a villain, ay, and he shall know it too.

Before three suns have set again, he shall feel my sister has an avenger!" "His schemes against the peace, the honour of the innocent are registered on high; be calm, be satisfied, Percy.

His last hour will be chastisement enough." "By heaven, it shall be!" retorted Percy, passion increasing, it appeared, at every gentle word his brother spoke, and irritating him beyond control.

"Herbert, you will drive me mad with this mistimed calmness; you know not half the injury she has received." "Whatever might have been his schemes, they have all failed, Percy, and therefore should we not rather feel thankful for Caroline's restoration to her home, to herself, than thus encourage fury against him from whose snares she has escaped ?" "Yes; and though his base plan, thanks to my sister's strength of mind, or, rather, my mother's enduring counsel, has not succeeded, am I to sit calmly by and see her health, spirits, alike sinking beneath that love which the deceiving villain knew so well how to call forth?
am I to see this, to gaze on the suffering he has caused, unmoved, and permit him to pass unscathed, as if his victim had neither father nor brother to protect and avenge her injured honour ?" "Her honour is not injured.