Thou shalt do thy desire.

Yet methinks thy brother has scarce deserved this grace at thy hands." "Let us not think of that," said Gertrude, with a look of pain in her eyes; "let us only think of his peril, and of the terrible retribution which may fall upon him.

God grant that he may find repentance and peace at the last!" "Amen!" said the Master Builder, with some solemnity, thinking of the fashion in which his son's time had been spent of late, and of the very escapade which had brought this evil upon him.
All that night mother and sister watched beside the bed of the unhappy young man, who moaned and tossed, and too often broke into blasphemous railings at the fate which had overtaken him.

He gave himself up for lost from the first, and having no hope or real belief as regards the future life, was full of darkness and bitterness of heart.

He would not so much as listen when Gertrude would have spoken to him of the Saviour's love for sinners, but answered with mocking and profane words which made her heart die within her.
Towards morning he fell into a restless sleep, from which he wakened in a high fever, not knowing any of those about him.