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The King's ward held court as though she were a king's daughter In the brightness of her beauty she sat there, as gracious for the nonce as the sunshine, and asthat is inand very beautiful Some there had not been my friends, and now rejoiced in what seeht er side; many who in secret wished ed their shoulders over what they were pleased to call ood words The Governor had left his gilt arreen, and had caused a chair to be set for her near his own, and here men came and bowed before her as if she had been a princess indeed

A stir a of necks heralded the approach of that other at whoaped with admiration He came with his retinue of attendants, his poance of port, his splendid beauty Men looked fro's minion, from her costly silk to his velvet and miniver, fro pride and insolence which to the thoughtless seemed his fortune's proper 's will indeed the will of Heaven

I was never one to value a , but suddenly I saw myself as in a mirror,--a soldier, scarred and bronzed, acquainted with the cahened by a rude life, poor in this world's goods, the first flush of youth gone forever For apassed, and rasp upon the chair in which sat the woman I had wed She was my wife, and I would keep my own

My lord had paused to speak to the Governor, who had risen to greet him Now he came toward us, and the crowd pressed and whispered He bowed low to Mistress Percy, made as if to pass on, then came to a stop before her, his hat in his hand, his handsome head bent, a smile upon his bearded lips

"When was it that we last sat to see ay hahed, and tied her colors around my arm"