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"And that is?"

"A room in black, and a chop with an axe--the Earl of Gloucester's

fate, in a word!"

"You have said it! Have you any reason why such a sentence should not be

pronounced on you?"

"None; pronounce it as soon as you like"

"With the greatest pleasure!" said the duke, who had been scrawling on

another ominous roll of vellum, and now passed it to the dwarf "I never

knew anyone it gave hness pass

that to her hness, with a grin of ht, did as directed;

and Sir Norman looked steadfastly at the queen as she received it One

of the gauzy ny, and she took it with

a look half bored, half i, dark lashes did not lift; no change passed over the calm, cold

face, as icily placid as a frozen lake in the er was less than nothing to her To hi, or nearly so; but yet there was a sharp jarring

pain at his heart, as he saw that fair hand, that had saved hin his death warrant now But there was little time left for to

watch her; for, as she pushed it impatiently away, and relapsed into her

forot up with one of his death's-head

grins, and began: "Sir Norsley, you have been tried and convicted as a spy, and

the paid-hireling of the vindictive and narrow-minded Charles; and the