ist. Then suddenly
a pang shot through my heart, as if it were the dart of death, and I
would have screamed, such was its agony; but still my tongue was frozen!
And I suffered, I cannot tell you what: when suddenly a soft breath
breathed upon my cheek, and it felt warm and soothing, and a
voice--sounding--I may as well tell it all, Robin--so like yours, said,
'Pray.' And as I prayed--not in words, but in spirit, the pain departed
from me, and the blood flowed again through my veins; and gazing
upwards, I found that I was not in the ruined chapel, but in the
presence of the blessed Saviour! He looked upon us--upon us both----"

"Stop, Barbara!" exclaimed Robin, whose imagination, at all times easily
worked upon, now became absolute torture, "for mercy, stop! It was but
the dream of a weak girl."

For the first time since she had grown to woman's estate, he pressed
her to his bosom, and then silently walked with her to the little gate
that led to the garden.

"Let Crisp stay with me. Bright-eye and he agree better than usual,"
said Barbara with a quiet smile.

"I will," replied Robin, adding, as he turned away, "Trust in the God
you worship, and put no faith in dreams."

CHAPTER V.

Tell men of high condition
That rule affairs of state,
Their purpose is ambition,
Their practice only hate;
And if they once reply,
Then give them all the lie.

Tell Wit how much it wrangles
In tickle points of niceness--
Tell Wisdom she entangles
Herself in over-wiseness;
And when they do reply,
Straight give them both the lie.

JOSHUA SILVESTER.

Robin had, doubtless, good reasons for the hint he had given Barbara,
that she might soon again see the Buccaneer, and that she would do well
to use that forbearance towards him which she had so kindly and so
invariably practised towards the Ranger. After leaving her, as we have
stated, in safety at one of the entrances to Cecil Place, he proceeded
to the Gull's Nest. His first inquiries were concerning the boy who had
contrived to steal a passage on board the Fire-fly from France to
England, and who had pretended dumbness. How the youth got on board his
vessel, Dalton could not imagine; although, when the discovery was made,
his feigning the infirmity we have mentioned succeeded so well, that the
Buccaneer absolutely believed he could neither hear nor speak, and
sympathised with him accordingly. T