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"Do you know those two gentlemen?" she asked

"Certainly," replied Sir Norman, promptly; "one is the Duke of York, the

other the Earl of Rochester"

"And that page, to which of thee!" said Sir Norman, with a stare, as he leaned forward to look;

"pray, e to do with it?"

"Look and see!"

The two peers has ascended the stairs, and were already on the bridge

The page loitered behind, talking, as it seemed, to the waterman

"He wears the livery of the Earl of Rochester," said Or

for the first time, "but I cannot see his face"

"He will follow presently, and be sure you see it then! Possibly you may

not find it entirely new to you"

She drew back into the shadow as she spoke; and the two nobles, as they

advanced, talking earnestly, beheld Sir Norman and Ornition, and the salute was courteously

returned by the others

"Good-night, gentle, is it not?

Have you come here to witness the illumination?"

"Hardly," said Sir Norman; "we have come for a very different purpose,