in what it has done for him already. If you could only see him!'

'I mean to see him, if it should go against him,' said Ethel, 'if you
will let me. I would go to him as I would if he were in a decline,
and with more reverence.'

'Don't talk of it,' cried her father. 'For truth's sake, for
justice's sake, for the country's sake, I can not, will not, believe
it will go wrong. There is a Providence, after all, Ethel!'

And the Doctor went away, afraid alike of hope and despondency, and
Ethel thought of the bright young face, of De Wilton, of Job, and of
the martyrs; and when she was not encouraging Aubrey, or soothing
Averil, her heart would sink, and the tears that would not come would
have been very comfortable.

It was well for all that the assizes were so near that the suspense
was not long protracted; for it told upon all concerned. Leonard,
when the Doctor saw him again, was of the same way of thinking, but
his manner was more agitated; he could not sleep, or if he slept, the
anticipations chased away in the day-time revenged themselves in his
dreams; and he was very unhappy, also, about his sister, whose
illness continued day after day. She was not acutely ill, but in a
constant state of low fever, every faculty in the most painful state
of tension, convinced that she was quite able to get up and go to
Leonard, and that her detention was mere cruelty; and then, on trying
to rise, refused by fainting. Her searching questions and ardent
eyes made it impossible to keep any feature in the case from her
knowledge. Sleep was impossible to her; and once when Henry tried
the effect of an anodyne, it produced a semi-delirium, which made him