Page 91 (1/2)

"And how long will her trial last?"

"Half an hour, or thereabouts There are soated, and which will require some time"

"Then let all the trials be over first, and all the beheadings take

place together We don't choose to take the trouble of traveling to the

Black Chamber just to see his head chopped off, and then have the sao half an hour after, for a similar purpose Call Lady

Castleeons, and

there remain until the time for execution Guards, do you hear? Take hirew black as a thunder-cloud, and he jumped to his

feet and confronted the queen with a look so intensely ugly that no

other earthly face could have assumed it But that lady merelyher dark bright eyes

fixed chillingly upon hiuards Those warlike gentleracious ary, on

the "ra eye and a certain expression about

her handsome mouth spoke the truth, must have been twenty hours out of

the twenty-four As the soldiers approached to lead him away, Sir Norman

tried to catch her eye; but in vain, for she kept those brilliant optics

ly fixed on the dwarf's face