d, conscious of
having omitted anything to save it, (at present so greatly
imperilled,) the thought would cast a gloom over the remainder of my
days, which, even thy love could not chase away."

"Yet run into no unnecessary danger--do not be rash. What have I done
by my imprudent words?" said the young lady, tears swelling into her
eyes, as the possible consequences of what she had said, occurred to
her mind. "O Miles, heed me not. What do I know of such things!"

"To prudence and courage," said Arundel, "there is little danger in
any enterprise; but sooner shall life desert me, than I the Pequot
chief."

They parted, he to ponder means to accomplish his purpose, and she
alternately to reproach and to forgive herself, for encouraging her
lover in an undertaking full of peril, yet demanded by gratitude and
honor.

CHAPTER XXIX.

No wound, which warlike hand of enemy
Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light,
As doth the poisonous sting which infamy
Infixeth in the name of noble wight;
For by no art, nor any leeches might,
It ever can recovered be again.

SPENSER'S FAERY QUEEN.

The reader is introduced, once more, into the company of the assembled
magnates of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England, and into the same
room where we beheld them before. Governor Winthrop, upon the elevated
dais, in his elbow chair, presides, while, ranged around the central
table, is a full attendance of the Assistants. Not as before, however,
are spectators admitted. Saving the honorable Council, no person is
present, for the business before them has reference to concerns of
State, as well as to a judicial examination, and it is considered
expedient to conduct it in secrecy. The members, at the moment we
enter, are engaged in an earnest discussion, and it is the rough voice
of Deputy Governor Dudley which first salutes the ear.

"It were of little avail," he said, as if objecting to something which
had been proposed. "Let us not, like the ancient Pharisees, lay upon
the shoulders of the people burdens too heavy to be borne."

"Thy comparison," said Endicott, in reply, "is somewhat unpleasing,
and the shoe fits us not; but in vain hath been our pilgrimage hither,
if we continue to imitate the unhappy model we left behind."

"Call you," said Dudley, "the accidental shaping of a ruff, or the
manner of disposing of the folds of my galligaskins, an imitation of a
prelatical model?"

"And call you