The Mohegan Maiden — page 93: what you’re looking at

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THE FRUITS OF AMBITION. 95 I have brought them here that I might communicate what I wished without fear of any person discovering us. Besides, I have something else in view, for I feel almost assured that I have made a discovery. Had not years tempered my enthu- siasm, I should divulge it at once, and seek proof. Ag it is, and as I am, let it rest for the present.” He paused for a time, as if collecting and preparing what he would say. Then turning toward Archibald, he began the anxiously expected story : «“ T will commence by saying that my name is Eugene Bur ; I came of a good English family, and in my youth cho rare privileges, which I did not. fail to improve, in a great measure. When the movement against Charles the First took place, I was very forward in it, for Thated the man. Besides, _J had a boundless ambition—ambition which proved my ruin, despite the many examples I had seen, and all the good ad- vice I had heard. Finally, he was arraigned for trial, and TJ, é with others, sat as judges, pre-determined to pass sentence of death upon him. You know the result. The headsman’s ax let out his life, and then I exulted that our success had been So great. y serail “ Cromwell was not insensible to the part I had taken, and in the bloody wars which followed I was made one of his generals, I was successful, too, and that added to my growing laurels. There it was that I gained the military knowledge which en- abled me to turn the tide of battle against the Indians the other day. : “ But the English people had no ambition to gratify, and they began to long for quiet and the restoration of their right ful king. He came, at length, and was received with open arms. Our cause died in an hour, and after a little reflection most of us would have abandoned it. But we were now to gather the ripened fruit of our folly. “ Among other acts of the new king and his advisers, was q decree of death to thirty of the judges who had condemned his father. My ambition had placed me in the foremost list and now I was to gain the reward of my endeayors. I nade sown the wind, and was to reap the whirlwind. But, though we had lost our power, many were the secret friends through- out the realm upon whom we could place reliance, and they ~ we. . connicloooks.comn)