"
"You terrify me," said Sybil. "I knew we had fearful odds to
combat against. My visit to this city alone has taught me how
strong are our enemies. But I believed that we had on our
side God and Truth."
"They know neither of them in the National Convention," said
Morley. "Our career will be a vulgar caricature of the bad
passions and the low intrigues, the factions and the failures,
of our oppressors."
At this moment Gerard and Hatton who were sitting in the
remote part of the room rose together and advanced forward;
and this movement interrupted the conversation of Sybil and
Morley. Before however her father and his new friend could
reach them, Hatton as if some point on which he had not been
sufficiently explicit, had occurred to him, stopped and
placing his hand on Gerard's arm, withdrew him again, saying
in a voice which could only be heard by the individual whom he
addressed. "You understand--I have not the slightest doubt
myself of your moral right: I believe on every principle of
justice, that Mowbray Castle is as much yours as the house
that is built by the tenant on the lord's land: but can we
prove it? We never had the legal evidence. You are in error
in supposing that these papers were of any vital consequence;
mere memoranda; very useful no doubt: I hope I shall find
them; but of no validity.
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