"Wait, my brother," said he; "precipitate nothing; everything may change; hasty resolutions ruin all causes; add another year of trial, I implore you, to the years you have already undergone.

You have, to induce you to act now rather than at another time, neither occasion nor opportunity.

Come with me, my brother; I will give you one of my residences, whichever you prefer, to inhabit.

I, with you, will keep my eyes upon events; we will prepare.
Come, then, my brother, have courage!" Charles II.

withdrew his hand from that of the king, and drawing back, to salute him with more ceremony, "With all my heart, thanks!" replied he, "sire; but I have prayed without success to the greatest king on earth; now I will go and ask a miracle of God." And he went out without being willing to hear any more, his head carried loftily, his hand trembling, with a painful contraction of his noble countenance, and that profound gloom which, finding no more hope in the world of men, appeared to go beyond it, and ask it in worlds unknown.