idst the broken rubbish
of gone passions!"

He turned to the table, and wrote the order of admission to Henry's
prison, and as he gave it to Sibyll, he said, "Thy young gallant, I see,
is at the court now. It is a perilous ordeal, and especially to one for
whom the name of Nevile opens the road to advancement and honour. Men
learn betimes in courts to forsake Love for Plutus, and many a wealthy
lord would give his heiress to the poorest gentleman who claims kindred
to the Earl of Salisbury and Warwick."

"May my father's guest so prosper," answered Sibyll, "for he seems of
loyal heart and gentle nature!"

"Thou art unselfish, sweet mistress," said Hastings; and, surprised
by her careless tone, he paused a moment: "or art thou, in truth,
indifferent? Saw I not thy hand in his, when even those loathly
tymbesteres chanted warning to thee for loving, not above thy merits,
but, alas, it may be, above thy fortunes?"

Sibyll's delight increased. Oh, then, he had not applied that hateful
warning to himself! He guessed not her secret. She blushed, and the
blush was so chaste and maidenly, while the smile that went with it
was so ineffably animated and joyous, that Hastings exclaimed, with
unaffected admiration, "Surely, fair donzell, Petrarch dreamed of thee,
when he spoke of the woman-blush and the angel-smile of Laura. Woe to
the man who would injure thee! Farewell! I would not see thee too often,
unless I saw thee ever."

He lifted her hand to his lips with a chivalrous respect as he spoke;
opened the door, and called his page to attend her to the gates.

Sibyll was more flattered by the abrupt dismissal than if he had knelt
to detain her. How different seemed the world as her light step wended
homeward!

CHAPTER V. MASTER ADAM WARNER AND KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

The next morning Hilyard revisited Warner with the letters for Henry.
The conspirator made Adam reveal to him the interior mechanism of the
Eureka, to which Adam, who had toiled all night, had appended one of
the most ingenious contrivances he had as yet been enabled (sans the
diamond) to accomplish, for the better display of the agencies which
the engine was designed to achieve. This contrivance was full of strange
cells and recesses, in one of which the documents were placed. And there
they lay, so well concealed as to puzzle the minutest search, if not
aided by the inventor, or one to whom he had communicated the secrets of
the contrivance.

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