[Seizing him violently.
Everg. Henry, do I deserve this?
Henry. Pardon me, good old man! I'll act more reasonably—I'll deem thy silence mercy.
Everg. That's wisely said.
Henry. Yet it is hard to think, that the most detested reptile that nature forms, or man pursues, has, when he gains his den, a parent's pitying breast to shelter in; but I——
Everg. Come, come, no more of this.
Henry. Well!—--I visited to-day that young man who was so grievously bruised by the breaking of his team.
Everg. That was kindly done, Henry.
Henry. I found him suffering under extreme torture, yet a ray of joy shot from his languid eye—for his medicine was administered by a father's hand—it was a mother's precious tear that dropped upon his wound—Oh, how I envied him!
Everg. Still on the same subject—I tell thee, if thou art not acknowledged by thy race, why, then become the noble founder of a new one.—Come with me to the castle, for the last time.