" The Lord Keeper looked at her in some surprise, but said
not a word. "My lord," she continued, in an impressive and solemn tone,
"take care what you do; you are on the brink of a precipice."
"Indeed?" said the Lord Keeper, his mind reverting to the political
circumstances of the country. "Has anything come to your knowledge--any
plot or conspiracy?"
"No, my lord; those who traffic in such commodities do not call to their
councils the old, blind, and infirm. My warning is of another kind. You
have driven matters hard with the house of Ravenswood. Believe a true
tale: they are a fierce house, and there is danger in dealing with men
when they become desperate."
"Tush," answered the Keeper; "what has been between us has been the work
of the law, not my doing; and to the law they must look, if they would
impugn my proceedings."
"Ay, but they may think otherwise, and take the law into their own hand,
when they fail of other means of redress."
"What mean you?" said the Lord Keeper. "Young Ravenswood would not have
recourse to personal violence?"
"God forbid I should say so! I know nothing of the youth but what is
honourable and open.
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