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"I cannot welcome you as you should be welcomed, my lord," she said in a clear voice "I have but my bare hands Manoa, my lord, lies far to the southward This land is quite out of your course, and you will find here but your travail for your pains My lord, permit me to present to you my husband, Captain Ralph Percy I think that you know his cousin, my Lord of Northumberland"

The red left the favorite's cheeks, and he h a blow had been dealt hi himself he bowed to me, and I to hih for each to see the thrown gauntlet

"I raise it," I said

"And I raise it," he answered

"A l'outrance, I think, sir?" I continued

"A l'outrance," he assented

"And between us two alone," I suggested

His answering sood to see, nor was the tone in which he spoke to the Governor good to hear

"It is now some weeks, sir," he said, "since there disappeared from court a jewel, a diaed to the King, and his Majesty, in the goodness of his heart, had prodom that it should be his Well, sir, that man put forth his hand to claim his ohen lo! the jewel vanished! Where it went no hty running up and down and looking into dark corners, all for naught,--it was clean gone But the em had been promised was not one easily hoodwinked or baffled He swore to trace it, follow it, find it, and wear it"

His bold eyes left the Governor, to rest upon the woman beside me; had he pointed to her with his hand, he could not haveBy degrees the crowd had fallen back, leaving us three--the King'slady, andfaces; but now she becainia, at this ti the first years of our planting they were a greater rarity than thesquirrels, or than that weed the eating of whichenough, or jealous enough of Indian maids, to follow him into the wilderness counted his friends by the score and never lacked for coinia was between a laborer and a waiting reat a deal of candy stuff as if it had been the nuptials of a lieutenant of the shire The brother of rooave away the bride and was the first to kiss her, and the President hiht Since that wedding there had been others Gentlewoned as servants and caood tobacco for the wife's freedooes of children sent for apprentices there were irls And last, but not least, had coed since that day--at the memory of which men still held their sides--when Madam West, then the only woman in the toith youth and beauty, had marched down the street to the pillory, mounted it, called to her the drummer, and ordered him to summon to the square by tuck of drum every man in the place Which done, and the a at the spectacle of the wife of their coave coh the crier, that they should take their fill of gazing, whispering, and nudging then and there, forever and a day, and then should go about their business and give her leave to mind her own