Is it for nothing, think'st thou, that this young man--the son of my dear departed friend--has been brought hither at this particular conjuncture?
Is it for nothing that, wholly unsolicited, he has placed his life at my disposal, and in doing so has devoted himself to a great cause?
Like myself he hath wrongs to avenge, and the Lord of Hosts will give him satisfaction." "But not in the way you propose, father," Aveline rejoined.

"Heaven will assuredly give you both satisfaction for the wrongs you have endured; but it must choose its own means of doing so, and its own time." "It _hath_ chosen the means, and the time is coming quickly," cried the Puritan, his eye again kindling with fanatical light.

"'The Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail.'" "These things are riddles to me," observed Jocelyn, who had listened to what was passing with great uneasiness.

"I would solicit an explanation ?" "You shall have it, my son," Hugh Calveley replied.

"But not now.