Excerpt from Henry De Pomeroy, or the Eve of St. John, Vol. 3 of 3: A Legend of Cornwall and Devon Though Baldwin was his superior in age, learning, and station, yet Caedmon had lived with him so much on terms of equality, so favoured, so familiarly happy, that he felt a rupture with the abbot was nothing less than the breaking of an ancient friendship; a thing always painful, and doubly so now, as, to the usual sufferings of such a breach were super added, on his part, the fear of punishment, and all the danger of a. Resentment that would feel itself bound in dignity, as well as in policy, not to forgive. Caedmon, also, was very wrathz; his character, one of uncommon energy, caused his emotions, of hatred or of love, to be alike sensitive and strong. Even in calmer hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.