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She ca of now very quiet and attentive faces until she stood beside me, but she neither looked at me nor spoke to me She was thinner and there were heavy shadows beneath her eyes, but she was beautiful

"I stand before gentlemen to whom, perhaps, I am not utterly unknown," she said "Some here, perchance, have been to court, and have seen me there Master Sandys, once, before the Queen died, you came to Greenwich to kiss her Majesty's hands; and while you waited in her antecha maid of honor--scarce more than a child--curled in aseat with a book You sat beside her, and told her wonderful tales of sunny lands and gods and nymphs I was thatnear Windsor, I dropped love There were a round, but a gentleman, not of our party, who had drawn his horse to one side to let us pass, was quicker than they all Did you not think yourself well paid, sir, when you kissed the hand to which you restored the glove? All here, I think, ht that ever I did in all my life to tarnish it, I pray him to speak now and shame me before you all!"

Clayborne started up "I remember that day at Windsor, lady!" he cried "The man of whom I afterward asked your name was a most libertine courtier, and he raised his hat when he spoke of you, calling you a lily which the ood, but no harravely: "Men need not be courtiers to have known of a lady of great wealth and high birth, a ward of the King's, and both beautiful and pure I nor no h but what becahter of her line"

Aforward froravely bent his head "All this is known, lady," he said courteously

She did not answer; her eyes were upon the King's favorite, and the circle waited with her

"It is known," said race, thanks, ain to the Governor: "Your Honor, that is the past, the long past, the long, long past, though not a year has gone by Then I was a girl, proud and careless; now, your Honor, I a and peril I fled froland"--She paused, drew herself up, and turned upon my lord a face and fored wory pity, that small wonder if he shrank as from a blow "I left the only world I knew," she said "I took a way low and narrow and dark and set with thorns, but the only way that I--alone and helpless and bewildered---could find, because that I, Jocelyn Leigh, willed not to ith you, my Lord Carnal Why did you follow me, my lord? You knew that I loved you not You knew my mind, and that I eak and friendless, and you used your power I must tell you, my lord, that you were not chivalrous, nor compassionate, nor brave"-"I loved you!" he cried, and stretched out his arm toward her across the table He saw no one but her, spoke to none but her There was a fierce yearning and a hopelessness in his voice and bent head and outstretched areant, evil and nificent, of his life