beyond
his power to avenge.

Thus checked at the opening of life in the career of glory that was his
wordnetdesire-secluded in the bloom of manhood from the social haunts of
men-he repressed the eager wordnetdesire of his mind, and strove to
acquire that  to inevitable evils which alone could
reconcile him to forego the promises of his youth, and enable him to
view with patience a  of Scotland, which blighted her honor,
menaced her existence, and consigned her sons to degradation or
obscurity.  The latter was the choice of Wallace.  Too noble to bend
his  to the usurper, too honest to  , he resigned
himself to the only way left of maintaining the independence of a true
Scot; and giving up the world at once, all the wordnetdesire of youth
became extinguished in his breast, since nothing was preserved in his
country to sanctify their .  Scotland seemed proud of her chains.
Not to share in such debasement, appeared all that was now in his
power; and within the shades of Ellerslie he found a retreat and a
home, whose sweets beguiling him of every , made him sometimes
forget the wrongs of his country in the tranquil  of wedded
wordnetdesire.

During the happy mouths of the preceding autumn, while Scotland was yet
free, and the path of honorable distinction still open before her young
nobility