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"Ha," said Leicester, "remember you to whom you speak?"

"I speak of her unworthy husband, my lord," repeated Tressilian, "and

woe, and sequestered in some secret place of

this Castle--if she be not transferred to sons This must be reformed, my lord--I speak it as

authorized by her father--and this ill-fated e must be avouched

and proved in the Queen's presence, and the lady placed without

restraint and at her own free disposal And permit me to say it concerns

no one's honour that these most just demands of mine should be complied

with so much as it does that of your lordship"

The Earl stood as if he had been petrified at the extre injured him so deeply,

pleaded the cause of his criminal paramour, as if she had been an

innocent woman and he a disinterested advocate; nor was his wonder

lessened by the warmth hich Tressilian seemed to deraced, and the advantages of

which she was doubtless to share with the lover who advocated her cause

with such effrontery Tressilian had been silent for more than a