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"She was all that," I replied "Now she 's h Coree with you"

My rapier lay across my knees, and I ran rees with me," I said "And up there is Another," and I lifted ood sword!" he cried "A very knightly dependence, but not to be 's favor Better bend to the stor lohile it roars past You can swear that you did n't know her to be of finer weave than dowlas Oh, they'll call it in soe, for the lady's own sake; but they'll find flaws enough to crack a thousand such ! There's precedent, you know A fair lady was parted froo, because a favorite wanted her True, Frances Hoanted the favorite, whilst this beauty of yours"-"You will please not couple the name of my ith the name of that adulteress!" I interrupted fiercely

He started; then cried out somewhat hurriedly: "No offense, no offense! I berry All at court know the Lady Jocelyn Leigh for a very Britoan to pace up and down the bit of green before the door "Master Pory," I said at last, co to a stop before him, "if, without breach of faith, you can tell me as said or done at the Council to-day anent this ation that I shall not forget"

He studied the lace on his sleeve in silence for a while; then glanced up at me out of those s deave us such a turn to-day, in fact, with a couple of women to attend her, and under the protection of the only other passenger of quality, to wit, my Lord Carnal His Majesty cannot conceive it possible that she hath so far forgotten her birth, rank, and duty as to haveherself into the arms of any petty planter or broken adventurer who hath chanced to have an hundred and twenty pounds of filthy tobacco hich to buy him a wife If she hath been so mad, she is to be sent home none the less, where she will be tenderly dealt with as one surely in this solehome also--and in irons--the norant of her quality, and places no straws in the way of the King's Coinia with enough in his hand to get him another wife Per contra, if he erred with open eyes, and if he re and with the Court of High Co's favorite That's the sum and substance, Ralph Percy"