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Last, the voice of old age, and authority and matured experience, and divine illumination, old age encompassed by much doubt and weariness and human infirmity, a solemn, pondering voice, which, with God somewhere in the clear-obscure, goes sounding on a dim and perilous way, until in a moment this voice of the anxious explorer for truth changes to the voice of the unalterable justicer, the armed doomsman of righteousness.
And he shall, on the one party, think on the greatness of his trespass, and, on another party, the power of the Doomsman. Of such a consideration springeth dread, that is to say Reuben, that through right is cleped "the son of sight." For utterly is he blind that seeth not the pains that are to come, and dreadeth not to sin.
There was no place in which to hide the craft, and to allow her to remain moored at the pier would be tantamount to announcing his arrival to the first sharp-eyed Doomsman who might chance to pass that way. So, pushing her out into the current with a vigorous shove from his foot, Constans watched the little hull disappear in the darkness.
Yet it was not Gavan of the Greenwood Keep who held up his hand in sign of parley, but the Doomsman, Quinton Edge. "The maiden Issa," he said, speaking with a smooth insolence that made Constans set his teeth. "Give her safely to my hand and your goods and your lives shall go free of further damage.
And, peradventure, when, long years afterwards, accusations of witchcraft, wantonness, and treason resounded in the ears of Hastings, and, at the signal of Gloucester, rushed in the armed doomsman, those ominous words echoed back upon his soul! At that very hour the gates of the Tower were thrown open to the multitude.
But mark if, when the time be sped, Thou fail'st, thy surety dies instead. His life shall buy thine own release; Thy guilt atoned, my wrath shall cease." The sun sinks down the gate's in view, The cross looms dismal on the ground The eager crowd gape murmuring round. His friend is bound the cross unto. Crowd guards all bursts he through; "Me! Doomsman, me," he shouts, "alone!
And well is Reuben cleped the son of sight; for when he was born, his mother cried and said: "God hath seen my meekness." And man's soul, in such a consideration of his old sins and of the power of the Doomsman, beginneth then truly to see God by feeling of dread, and also to be seen of God by rewarding of pity.
He would see Anne before the earl could, and appease her anger, obtain her silence! For Warner and for Sibyll, they would not dare to reveal; and, if they did, the lips that accuse a king soon belie themselves, while a rack can torture truth, and the doomsman be the only judge between the subject and the head that wears a crown. Thus reasoning with himself, his soul faced the solitude.
What other man had Richard of York taken so dearly to his heart, to what other man had the august father said, "Protect my sons"? Before him seemed literally to rise the phantom of that honoured prince, and with clay-cold lips to ask, "Art thou, of all the world, the doomsman of my first-born?"
But from the double death shall know, That truth and love yet live below!" The sun sinks down the gate's in view, The cross looms dismal on the ground The eager crowd gape murmuring round. His friend is bound the cross unto. . . . Crowd guards all bursts he breathless through: "Me! Doomsman, me!" he shouts, "alone! His life is rescued lo, mine own!" Amazement seized the circling ring!
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