text:  The king will back his efforts with all the weight of the crown; and we have considered if we could confide the persecuted dove to the hands of some assured friend--some true son of our holy church--some steady firm-hearted strong-nerved man who in such cause would set lord and king at defiance"---- Here she paused and looked upon me with her eyes dilated and her nostrils panting with some great thought which was within her; and I availed myself of the pause to say-- "Oh my lady! if you did mean me for such charge I confess my deficiency for such a lofty office; for I do feel in me no stirrings of an ambitious spirit