A breach was made in the defence, and Warwick and his brother fell side by side, choosing death before surrender.  And by them fell Hilyard, shattered by a bombard.  Young Marmaduke Nevile was among the few notable survivors.

The cries of “Victory!” reached a little band of watchers gathered in the churchyard on the hill of Hadley.  Here Henry the Peaceful had been conveyed.  And here, also, were Adam Warner and his daughter.  The soldiers, hearing from one of the Duchess of Bedford’s creatures whose chicanery had been the object of his scorn, that Warner was a wizard, had desired that his services should be utilised.  Till the issue was clear, he had been kept a prisoner.  When it was beyond doubt, he was hanged.  Sybill was found lying dead at her father’s feet.  Her heart was already broken, for the husband of Margaret de Bonville having died, Lord Hastings had been recalled to the side of his old love, his thought of marriage with Sybill being abandoned for ever.

King Edward and his brothers went to render thanksgiving at St. Paul’s; thence to Baynard’s Castle to escort the queen and her children once more to the Tower.

At the sight of the victorious king, of the lovely queen, and, above all, of the young male heir, the crowd burst forth with a hearty cry:  “Long live the king and the king’s son!”

Mechanically, Elizabeth turned her moistened eyes from Edward to Edward’s brother, and suddenly clasped her infant closer to her bosom when she caught the glittering and fatal eye of Richard, Duke of Gloucester—­Warwick’s grim avenger in the future—­fixed upon that harmless life, destined to interpose a feeble obstacle between the ambition of a ruthless intellect and the heritage of the English throne!

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HENRY MACKENZIE

The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie, the son of an Edinburgh physician, was born in that city on August 26, 1745.  He was educated for the law, and at the age of twenty became attorney for the crown in Scotland.  It was about this time that he began to devote his attention to literature.  His first story, “The Man of Feeling,” was published anonymously in 1771, and such was its popularity that its authorship was claimed in many quarters.  Considered as a novel, “The Man of Feeling” is frankly sentimental.  Its fragmentary form was doubtlessly suggested by Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey,” and the adventures of the hero himself are reminiscent of those of Moses in “The Vicar of Wakefield.”  But of these two masterpieces Mackenzie’s work falls short:  it has none of Sterne’s humour, nor has it any of Goldsmith’s subtle characterisation.  “The Man of Feeling” was followed in 1773 by “The Man of the World,” and later by a number of miscellaneous articles and stories.  Mackenzie died on January 14, 1831.

I.—­A Whimsical History