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Lord Roos became a papist. Wotton's own nephew, Pickering, had been converted in Spain, on his death-bed, although he had been, according to the Jesuit records, "most tenacious of the corrupt religion which from his tender youth he had imbibed."
I thought she was only in a swoon." "What riddle is it you would have us read, my lord?" demanded Lady Lake. "No riddle whatever, Madam," replied Lord Roos. "I only mean to assert that the person you behold upon that couch is not the Countess of Exeter." "Not the Countess!" exclaimed Lady Roos. "Oh, if this were possible! But no, no! I cannot be deceived."
"I bring him a token, my lord," the young man replied, exhibiting the ring, given him by the masked horseman, to the ambassador. "Ha!" exclaimed De Gondomar, glancing at the ring, and then regarding Jocelyn steadfastly, "I must speak with this young man, my lord." "And abandon the damsel?" demanded Lord Roos. "No no you must take care of her," De Gondomar replied in a low tone.
Thus warned, my Lord, you are at liberty to depart." "I will take advantage of your offer, Sir Thomas, and attend to your hint," replied Lord Roos. And turning upon his heel, he marched towards the door, whither he was accompanied by Sir Thomas Lake, who called to the attendants outside to let him go free.
"She is past all chance of recovery." "Then Heaven pardon me!" ejaculated the Countess, clasping her hands together, and falling upon her knees. Sarah Swarton gazed at her in astonishment; while Lord Roos, rushing towards her, commanded her to rise. "Take heed what you say and do, Countess," he whispered. "You will excite this woman's suspicions."
"Don't make a trouble of it, my dear Herr Roos," said at length the elder of the two strangers. "The post is of course gone; but I am sending off a courier to Hamburg in an hour. Let me give him your letter, and it will then reach its destination earlier than it would have done by the post" "You incomparable man!" exclaimed Herr Elias, his face a perfect blaze of sunshine.
This precaution works very well so far as the common herd are concerned, but every hour through the day little knots of priestly men in the flowing new garments and spotless turbans representing their Noo Roos purchases, or the lamb's-wool cylinder and semi-European garb of the official, bribe, coerce, or command the guard to let them in.
Let him bend the knee to you. Let him promise amendment, and implore pardon, and it will then be for you to consider whether you will extend forgiveness to him." Lady Roos looked as if she would fain interrupt her mother, but she was too much under her subjection to offer a remark. "It is time to undeceive you, Madam," said Lord Roos, wholly unmoved by what was said.
Very different was the expression of the other, who seemed so much grieved and agitated by what she beheld, as to be almost ready to lapse into the same condition as the Countess. If Lord Roos could have seen the grin upon Diego's swarthy visage, as he stood at the entrance of the passage leading to the ante-chamber, he would have had little doubt to whom he was indebted for this surprise.
At this moment Diego suddenly presented himself, and apologizing for the abruptness of his entrance, accounted for it by saying that Sarah Swarton besought a word with his Lordship. She brought a message, he added, from Lady Roos, who was much worse, and not finding his Lordship at his own residence had ventured to follow him to Exeter House to deliver it.
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