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 should be cautious in our judgments." "Oh, but I am sure, and I care not to look on him; and Linden, they say, menaces to revenge on the young lord, my wrongs and his own; but his old father begs him for God's sake to be peaceable. Perhaps, my Lady, you will look on the poor gentleman: what though 'tis a dying man—you'll be gratified to see him, there is such a calm upon his countenance." "Must he die?" "Why, he's very precarious-like:—but your noble husband, the young Lord Avondale, is very good to him—he has done all a man and a soldier could do to save him." "I too will call," said Calantha, to hide from Gerald how much she was affected; "and, as to you, I must entreat as a favour, that you will return to the castle: to-morrow is Harry's birth-day; and it will not be a holiday, my father says, if you are not, as you were wont to be, at the head of the table with all the tenants." "I will come," said Gerald, "if it were only on