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"Nay, nay, my lord! my lord!" broke from Mistress Pen wick, and Janet ran to her crying, "My lord, not so harsh a deed before my lady's eyes!" "Ah! ah! and she hath carved my heart to pieces! Commit thy office, Hiary!" The lithe lackey sprang upon Christopher and drove the knife, it appeared, to the hilt, and with a gurgling cry the lad fell. Mistress Penwick looked on wild-eyed with terror.
Now Janet knew that the lad had only been slightly injured by Hiary and had fully recovered, and she determined to send for him, and at the Vesper service introduce him into the Chapel and thereby cause to cease her mistress' plaints.
His Lordship broke forth into such a wild laugh, even the affrighted and condemned servant crept from his hiding and looked on amazed. Finally, when his laughing had well-nigh ceased, his Lordship drew from his belt the dagger and threw it across the room at Hiary, saying, "There; stick him as thou wouldst a wild boar no probing, mind; but death!"
"Hiary will bring it thee, for 'tis said a hand put forth by an angry heart doth curdle that it toucheth and I am of no mind to be either kind or courteous." At these words, the colour that had come into Katherine's face a moment before, left it. As Hiary turned to do his lord's bidding, a door opened and Tompkins entered with a lighted candle and large basket.
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