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its head." " Gathered from many sects the Quaker brought His old beliefs; adjusting to the thought That moved his soul the creed his fathers taught: One faith alone, so broad that all mankind Within themselves its secret witness find, ? The soul's communion with the Eternal Mind ; The Spirit's Law ? the Inward Rule and Guide." "D EYOND Milnthorpe village Nathaniel came in sight -' of the woods which encircled Sandys Hall. He had been dimly conscious through all his spiritual turmoil of the glory of the setting sun and the clouds floating and burning in the west with the hue of a carmine-coloured flame; but when he passed through the park gates the splendour had faded away, and the cumulus masses lay dead and ghostly in the cold gray air. The silent, colourless land scene added its pathos to his troubled mood; and some strange sympathy with it made him draw rein and give his weary horse permission to walk soberly through the wooded avenues. They were already misty with the vapours from the mountains and the sea, and to his excited mind were full of images as mysterious. and incoherent as the background of dreams. When he came within sight of the house he forgot himself in the sad fate of its old possessors. For the last of the family had fallen in the battle of Marston Moor, fighting for the king, and the estate had subsequently been sold by the Puritan Parliament to Roger Prideaux, a wealthy goldsmith of Paul's Walk, London. Roger was a Westmoreland man;... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.