"Blessed are they which put their trust in God!"
She calmly rose, and perceived the hermit; who, on entering, had
observed her devout position, and the spontaneous benediction broke
from his lips. "Daughter," said he, leading her to a seat, "this hero
will prevail; for the Power before whose altar you have just knelt, has
declared, 'My might is with them who obey my laws, and put their trust
in me!' You speak highly of the young and valiant Sir William Wallace,
but I cannot conceive that he can be better formed for great and heroic
deeds than this chief. Suppose them, then, to be equal, when they have
met, with two such leaders, what may not a few determined Scots
perform?"
Helen sympathized with the cheering prognostications of the hermit; and
wishing to learn the name of this rival of a character she had regarded
as unparalleled, she asked, with a blush, by what title she must call
the knight who had undertaken so hazardous an enterprise for her.
Chapter XVII.
The Hermit's Cell.
"I know not," returned the hermit; "I never saw your gallant deliverer
before yesterday morning. Broken from my matins by a sudden noise, I
beheld a deer rush down the precipice, and fall headlong.
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