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mental wrath, and who accosted him rather suddenly the moment he sley, if you haveleave to take my departure As it is, I knoe are behind time, and his ma--the count, I mean, is not one who it

accusto"

"I a on

horseback; "so aith you, quick as you like"

George wanted no second order Before the words ell out of his

co away like a bolt from a bow, as

furiously as if on a steeple-chase, with Sir Norman close at his heels;

and they rode, flushed and breathless, with their steeds all a foa,

into the court-yard of the royal palace at Whitehall, just as the early

rising sun was showing his florid and burning visage above the horizon

The court-yard, unlike the city streets, swares,

and attendants, and soldiers,for thethe rest

Sir Nor very round, and chatting languidly with a pert and pretty

attendant of the fair Mistress Stuart He cut short his flirtation,

however, abruptly enough, and sprang to his feet as he saw Sir Nore immediately darted off and disappeared from the palace