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With all the vivid hope of youthful
inexperience, she continued to believe that he would return and confute
his accusers. Months, nay, years, rolled away; the hope grew fainter. No
certain tidings of his proceedings reached them after the fatal battle
of Dartmoor, when Lord Hopton precipitately doomed him to ignominy. She
had heard that his father commanded him to live and redeem his lost
fame; and she often fancied he was busily employed in obeying that
command. Indulging this idea, she hoped that his glory would burst upon
them with such unquestionable splendour, that every tongue would
applaud, while she took her hero by the hand, and asked her father to
rescind the injunction which forbade her to avow her unchangeable
affection.


CHAP. XV.
The zeal of the true Christian for Christ and his Gospel is
never accompanied with those flaming contentions and
oppositions, which, though engaged in the best of causes,
certainly testify a corrupt mind. They had rather obey than
dispute, follow than have the pre-eminence.


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