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250 "I am sure," resumed he, "we might make our own terms with Charles."

"Do you remember," asked Evelyn, "what the late Protector said, when urged to descend from the station which he worthily filled?—'Charles Stuart cannot forgive his father's death; and if he could, he were unworthy of the throne.' I believe he could and would easily forgive, or rather forget his father's fate; but the same selfish indifference would equally pervade all his actions—and England needs a sovereign of far other metal."

"My brother Richard, perhaps?" replied Henry, with a sneer.

"Good God!" exclaimed his companion. "Why cannot genius transmit itself?—a worthier heritage than king ever left. How many great designs are unfinished—how many noble projects untried—because death smites down the mind capable of conceiving and executing them! Alas! such a mind passes away, and leaves no successor. Henry Cromwell, what a debt does your father's memory claim at your hands!—it demands from you its justification. The high and prosperous state of our country has been the best answer to all cavillers at his power; for when has