"You had the opportunity and you threw it away for love.

What's love--to liberty ?" And every incentive which awakens the soul of honor in men appealed to him then.

Behind him stood the destinies of a great people, the fate of a great cause; on him they trusted, upon his honor they had depended, and before him stood one woman.

He saw her again as he had seen her before on the top of the hill on that memorable night in Virginia.

What had she said ?-- "_If I stood in the pathway of liberty for one single instant, I should despise the man who would not sweep me aside without a moment's hesitation._" Oh, Katharine, Katharine, he groaned in spirit, pressing his hands upon his face in agony, while every breaking wave flung the words, "duty and honor," into his face, and every throb of his beating heart whispered "love--love.".