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"Let him come," he said, with his countenance still distorted by inward

ood to see hoe punish offenders here, and

teach him what he is to expect himself Is yourfor the last fivehis proffered hand with grand disdain,

and stepping lightly down fronal for the unseen band to strike up a grand

triuue's March" been a popular

melody in those times, it would have suited the procession much more

admirably The queen and the dent first, and a vivid contrast they

were--she so young, so beautiful, so proud, so disdainfully cold; he so

ugly, so stunted, so deformed, so fiendish After them went the band of

sylphs in white, then the chancellor, archbishop, and eentlemen; and after them Sir Norman, in

the custody of two of the soldiers The condeed by his four guards; for he seemed

to have beco ti dis the rooreat archway heretofore hidden

by the tapestry now lifted lightly by the nyold, and brilliantly illurand saloon they had left, was thus revealed, and three siht and left, and one

directly before theh the one to the left,

and Sir Norloomy