CHAPTER VIII.
ANTHONY ASKE'S REVENGE.
"Revenge is but a frailty incident
To crazed and sickly minds; the poor content
Of little souls, unable to surmount
An injury; too weak to bear affront."
Oldham.
"Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter erelong, back on itself recoils."
Milton.
It is a finer thing to conciliate an enemy than to conquer one; but Jonathan Burley did not make any such consideration. He felt himself to have "bested" his son-in-law, and he kept reiterating that she was not afraid of him. What could Aske do to him? He did not believe there was law enough in England to make Eleanor live with her husband if she did not want to do so. True, Aske might divorce her; but the irate father answered the thought promptly. "Let him do it! He'll hev to give her back her money, and she'll get a better husband, easy enough. And as for what folks say
