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He held a candlestick in his hand, and the candle threw up a flickering light on his pallid, alarmed-looking face. "Dr. Panton," he whispered, "I wish you'd come out here a moment." And the doctor, cursing his bad luck, and feeling what he very seldom felt, thoroughly angry, said ungraciously: "What is the matter? Can't you tell me without my getting out of bed?"
At exactly nine the King entered, pale and alarmed-looking, and attended only by Beaufort. At sight of him the Queen arose and went to him with a little cry. "They have refused all is lost," says His Majesty, in a hollow voice. "Impossible!" she exclaims, looking from the King to Beaufort, who stood by, deathly pale, also.
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