"Your oath binds you to the project." "True," replied Fawkes; "and I have no thought of abandoning it.

But I am well assured it will not be successful." "Your thinking so, my son, will be the most certain means of realizing your apprehensions," replied Garnet, gravely.

"But let me hear the exact words of the spirit.

You may have misunderstood them." "I cannot repeat them precisely, father," replied Fawkes; "but I could not misapprehend their import, which was the deepest commiseration for our forlorn and fallen church, but a positive interdiction against any attempt to restore it by bloodshed.

'Suffer on,' said the spirit; 'bear the yoke patiently, and in due season God will avenge your wrongs, and free you from oppression.