40 EXHORTATION. 



but transient, forbore to ruffle it by the renewed breathing of 

 his ardent spirit. He therefore stood beside the bed in 

 silence, watching and ministering, even with woman's tender- 

 ness to the sick man's wants. 



" Ambrose," said the baron, as he took from his hand some 

 cooling drink, " I have been dreaming something I hardly 

 know what of that Butterfly heaven of yours; only I just 

 remember that I saw there (in sooth it was a foolish fancy) niy 

 brother Hubert." 



" And wherefore not, my lord ? Thy brother Hubert was a 

 good gentleman and, God rest his soul ! a pious Christian, 

 also, a noble benefactor to our ancient house." 



" Aye ! father, but he loved a venison pasty, and a stoup of 

 good Rhenish almost as well as his sinful brother." 



" True ; but these creature comforts, with other carnal lusts, 

 were not the gods of his idolatry, as- 



" They have been of mine, good Ambrose, you would say ; 

 but they are broken broken now, and so is their worshipper. 



-Do you know, Ambrose, I would give but, fool that 



I am ! what have I left to give to have been another man ? ' 



"My dear patron ! my brother in Clirist ! " exclaimed the monk, 

 falling on his knees, and grasping the baron's hand in extasy, 



" be then no longer what you are But what say I ? the 



spirit's influence has already begun and you, while it is 

 time, must work with it to complete a change." 



" The time is past ; or, if I had years instead of hours, did 



