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"No, Father, but they feel!" "Feel! I comprehend thee not." "As man's genius to him is woman's heart to her," answered Sibyll, her dark and deep eyes suffused with tears. "Doth not the heart create, invent? Doth it not dream? Doth it not form its idol out of air? Goeth it not forth into the future, to prophesy to itself?
"If there be, it is our place to respect it," returned the Nevile, adjusting his manteline; "and now we must command the litter." In spite of all the more urgent and harassing affairs that pressed upon him, the earl found an early time to attend to his guests. His welcome to Sibyll was more than courteous, it was paternal.
The Nevile paused, sighed, and changed the subject: "This house of thine must have been a stately pile in its day. I see but one side of the quadrangle is left, though it be easy to trace where the other three have stood." "And you may see their stones and their fittings in the butcher's and baker's stalls over the way," replied Sibyll.
"Yes," he muttered to himself, "there are some toys it were a sin to sport with and cast away amidst the broken rubbish of gone passions!" He turned to the table, and wrote the order of admission to Henry's prison, and as he gave it to Sibyll, he said, "Thy young gallant, I see, is at the court now.
"My poor father!" she said pityingly, "wilt thou not leave thyself the means whereby to keep strength and health for thine high hopes? Ah, Father, thy Sibyll only hoarded her poor gains for thee!" "The gold!" said Adam, mechanically, but in a softer voice, "all all thou hast! How didst thou get it, how?" "By the labours of these hands. Ah, do not frown on me!"
More than ever chafed against Katherine, Hastings surrendered himself without reserve to the charm he found in the society of Sibyll. Her confidence being again restored, again her mind showed itself to advantage, and the more because her pride was further roused to assert the equality with rank and gold which she took from nature and from God.
To-morrow resume thy labours; but this day, at least, thou must feast with me." And at his banquet that day, among the knights and barons, and the abbots and the warriors, Adam sat on the dais near the earl, and Sibyll at "the mess" of the ladies of the Duchess of Clarence. And ere the feast broke up, Warwick thus addressed his company:
That morning, when she dressed for her enterprise of filial love, perhaps for the first time Sibyll Warner felt that she was fair who shall say whether some innocent, natural vanity had not blended with the deep, devoted earnestness, which saw no shame in the act by which the child could aid the father?
For here comes the answer to the question, "Why was Sibyll sad?" The reader may determine for himself what were the ruling motives of Lord Hastings in the court he paid to Sibyll.
I will wait, tarry, hope, I care not if for years; wait till I can fulfil all I promise thee!" Sibyll, affected to tears, shook her head mournfully; and there was a long and painful silence.
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