40 EXHOKTATION. 



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 tenderness to 

 the sick man's wants. (^J 



" 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 re- 

 member that I saw there (in sooth it was a foolish fancy) my 

 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 Khenish almost as well as his sinful brother." 



" True ; but these creature comforts, and 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 Christ !" exclaimed the 

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



ecstacy, " 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 



