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strain of uide hiht raise the stone and discover nothing

His hand positively treerness as he lifted it; and with

unbounded delight, not to be described, looked down on the same titled

assee since--half

the lights were extinguished, and the great vaulted room was

comparatively in shadow--the music had entirely died away and all was

solemnly silent But what puzzled Sir Norman most of all was, the fact

that there see table, covered with green velvet, and looking not unlike a ht of the queen's crih chair, and wearing a long, solee, whose skin Sir Norlanced at the lower throne and found it as he

expected, ehness was not

only prince consort, but also supreentry, anizable the noble duke

who so narrowly escaped with his life under the swords of Sir Nore Before this solemn conclave stood a man as

evidently the prisoner under trial, and ore the whitest and ht he had ever beheld The queen was

lounging negligently back on her throne, paying very little attention

to the sole with so behind her pretty finger-tips, and

evidently very much bored by it all