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" -- -- Many, I believe there are, / Who live a life of virtuous decency, / Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel / No self-reproach; who of the moral law / Established in the land where they abide / Are strict observers; and not negligent / In acts of love to those with whom they dwell, / Their kindred and the children of their blood. / Praise be to such, and to their slumbers, peace! / -- But of the poor man ask, the abject poor; / Go and demand of him, if there be here, / In this cold abstinence from evil deeds; / And these inevitable charities, / Wherewith to satisfy the human soul. " / -- WORDSWORTH.
It was getting dusk -- too dusk to see to read the "History of Europe"; and Melicent, who had scarcely slept all night, stretched herself upon her bed and fell asleep. The flash of a light in her eyes awoke her, and starting up, she saw her uncle come in with a lamp, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Helston.