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"My wife, sir, hath played the devil ere now, in a Mystery, in Queen

Mary's time; but me shall want a trifle for properties"

"Here is a crown for thee," said the Earl,--"s"

Master Robert Lanehaitation which he had

excited, and then said to himself, as he stooped to pick up his staff

of office, "The noble Earl runs wild huive

crowns expect us witty fellows to wink at their unsettled starts; and,

by htly!"

[See Note 6 Robert Laneha the courtesies he had hitherto

dispensed so liberally, and hurrying through the courtly crowd, until

he paused in a sed to draw a

moment's breath unobserved, and in seclusion

"What am I now," he said to himself, "that aoose-brained gull! Conscience, thou art a

bloodhound, whose groakes us readily at the paltry stir of a rat

or mouse as at the step of a lion Can I not quit myself, by one

bold stroke, of a state so irkso the whole, throw ht, the door of the apartment opened,

and Varney rushed in