The rough earth is his bed, a morsel of dried meat and a draught of water are his food and drink, and death and danger his companions.

"Can danger lurk within a kiss."

Yet I cannot but declare that, in my opinion, we ought to suspend our proceedings, that the commons may discover what danger their negligence, precipitation, or blind compliance, has brought upon the nation; and that the people may, by so signal a proof of our disapprobation, be alarmed against any attempt of the same kind under any future administration.

"Risk," he thought contemptuously, "is only a pleasant excitement, danger the spice to the risk."

In the hour of his trial and danger many wishes for his successful reëlection came to him from Republicans of national prominence.