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I spared him nothing in the recital, and his stern features softened as I emphasised Gloriana's anxiety to save Miriam from worry. As I finished, the faithful creature opened her eyes, which rested naturally upon the face of Miriam. "Why it's my little girl," she said faintly. Doctor Standish bent forward. "If she mistakes you for one of her own kin, don't undeceive her. Play the part."
Ajax, as I expected, put her scruples to rout. It was agreed that I should carry, as credentials, Gloriana's present the parcel she hugged to her bosom, weighty with love and linen; that the interview should take place after dinner; that the recognition of Gloriana as Miriam's blood-relation should be not demanded but suggested with all deference due to a doctor of divinity.
I see it plainly, you minx, and I acquiesce because it delights me to give you pleasure, even at the cost of some dignity. Yet I may no longer shirk the Queen's business, no, not even to amuse you, my dear." "You said you had heard from her again?" "I had this morning my orders, under Gloriana's own fair hand, either to depart to-morrow into France or else to come to-morrow to Windsor.
Hence arose an intimacy between them, though to all the rest of their friends they must have been insufferable. Esmond's verses to "Gloriana at the Harpsichord," to "Gloriana's Nosegay," to "Gloriana at Court," appeared this year in the Observator. Have you never read them? They were thought pretty poems, and attributed by some to Mr. Prior.
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