He placed his hands over his eyes, and, with a strange shivering convulsion of the frame, sobbed aloud.


CHAPTER IX.—LESTER VANE AND VIVIAN.

Take back the foul reproach, unmanner’d railer!

Nor urge my rage too far, lest thou should’st find

I have as daring spirit in my blood

As thou or any of thy race e’er boasted;

And though no gaudy titles grac’d my birth,

Yet Heaven that made me honest, made me more