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Chapter the Fourteenth.
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Deeds are done on earth
Which have their punishment ere the earth closes
Upon the perpetrators. Be it the working
Of the remorse1-stirr’d fancy, or the vision,
Distinct and real, of unearthly being,
All ages witness, that beside the couch
Of the fell homicide oft stalks the ghost
Of him he slew2, and shows the shadowy wound.
OLD PLAY.
Everard had come to Joceline’s hut as fast as horse could bear him, and with the same impetuosity of purpose as of speed. He saw no choice in the course to be pursued, and felt in his own imagination the strongest right to direct, and even reprove, his cousin, beloved as she was, on account of the dangerous machinations with which she appeared to have connected herself. He returned slowly, and in a very different mood.
Not only had Alice, prudent3 as beautiful, appeared completely free from the weakness of conduct which seemed to give him some authority over her, but her views of policy, if less practicable, were so much more direct and noble than his own, as led him to question whether he had not compromised himself too rashly with Cromwell, even although the state of the country was so greatly divided and torn by faction4, that the promotion5 of the General to the possession of the executive government seemed the only chance of escaping a renewal6 of the Civil War. The more exalted7 and purer sentiments of Alice lowered him in his own eyes; and though unshaken in his opinion, that it were better the vessel9 should be steered10 by a pilot having no good title to the office, than that she should run upon the breakers, he felt that he was not
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incensed
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bestowing
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duel
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intruding
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disturbances
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