Now by this Hilt, this golde was earn'd too deare: Ah, how now death, wilt thou be conquerour? Then vengeance light on them that made me so, And ther's another farewell ere I goe.

Or some old sinne, whose unappeased guilt Powr'd vengeance forth on you eternallie?

It is just possible, however, I fairly admit, that Mr. Napier, who was a very eccentric man, may have so worded the letter as to induce the world to believe that the so-considered illegitimate child had been dead-born, while he gratifiedprivately he might verily thinkhis vengeance by writing this terrible curse.

It is just possible, however, I fairly admit, that Mr. Napier, who was a very eccentric man, may have so worded the letter as to induce the world to believe that the so-considered illegitimate child had been dead-born, while he gratifiedprivately he might verily thinkhis vengeance by writing this terrible curse.