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This disfigured countenance was once as free from seam or scar as your own; and yet, for an offence lighter than yours, it hath been stamped, as you see, with indelible infamy. Answer, Clement Lanyere, and answer according to your conscience, Was the sentence just of the high and honourable court by which you were tried?"
After a brief pause, the door was almost noiselessly opened, and Clement Lanyere entered the chamber. "What has Lanyere to do with the matter?" cried Sir Francis, suspiciously regarding the promoter, who was without his mask. "You will hear," replied Sir Giles. "Be pleased to inform Sir Francis, good Lanyere, how you come to be in a position to demand the hand of fair Mistress Aveline Calveley?"
At this rejoinder, Lanyere, who had hitherto kept his eyes on the ground, suddenly raised them, with a look of singular expression at the speaker. "Humph!" Sir Giles ejaculated. "I must proceed to extremities with him, I find. Keep strict watch upon him, Lanyere; and follow him if he goes forth. Trace him to his lair. Now to business.
She is advising the youth's flight that way; and he, like a hair-brained fool, will not listen to the suggestion. But it will be well to watch the outlet. Hark ye, Lanyere," he added to the promoter, "take three men with you, and go round quickly to the passage with which yon door communicates. Station yourselves near the outlet; and if Mounchensey comes forth, arrest him instantly.
"She was wholly unattended, and came in this direction. We were stationed within yon anti-chamber, which appears to be the sole means of communication with this passage, and we ought therefore to have intercepted the young man when he came forth." "You were not wont to be thus short-sighted, Lanyere.
"I will never consent to owe my deliverance to such means." "You shall have all the information you require after the jousts on Thursday," said Lanyere; "and let the thought strengthen your arm in the strife, for if you fail, Aveline Calveley will have no protector in the hour of need." With this, he departed as suddenly and mysteriously as he had come. Whitehall.
"Justice may he done his son," said Buckingham, "who has been oppressed in like manner with his father. Restitution may be made him of the estates of which he has been plundered." "It is well," said Sir Giles, glancing at Lanyere. "You will not enjoy them." "What means he?" inquired Charles.
I trust we may be friends once more. I will make you ample reparation for the wrong I have done you." But the young knight, folding his arms upon his breast, sternly replied "When reparation is made, Count, I may accept your hand, but not till then." "At least enter my house," urged the ambassador, "where you will be protected from arrest." "Do not hesitate, Sir Jocelyn," subjoined Lanyere.
They were never returned. On the contrary, under one plea or another, all the deeds relating to the property were obtained from its unsuspecting owner; and then a mortgage deed covering the whole estates was forged by them." "'Tis false!" exclaimed Sir Giles. "Have I your Highness's gracious promise of pardon to all except the principals in these great offences?" pursued Lanyere.
Directing Lanyere to search the latter, Sir Giles rushed into the court, and uttered a shout of savage joy on perceiving Jocelyn, sword in hand, scaling a wall which separated the court from the bowling-green. This delay favoured the pursuers; and on hearing their approach, Jocelyn strove to effect his retreat in the manner described.
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