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I can help you effectually, as I have shown; and, as I am a true gentleman, I will help you. Give me your hand, and let us be friends!" "Never!" Jocelyn exclaimed, withdrawing from him, "never shall the hand of a Mounchensey grasp yours in friendship! I would sooner mine rotted off! I am your mortal foe. My father's death has to be avenged."
"More difficult matters have been accomplished. Half your possessions, say you? She is not worth so much. Assign to me your share of the Mounchensey estates and she shall be yours." "I will do it, Sir Giles I will do it," cried the old usurer, eagerly; "but you must prove to me first that you can make good your words." "Pshaw! Have I ever deceived you, man? But rest easy.
Upon this Jocelyn succinctly related to the Ambassador all such particulars of his history as have been laid before the reader. De Gondomar listened to him with attention, and put some questions to him as he proceeded. At its close his countenance brightened. "You are in an awkward dilemma, it must be owned, Master Jocelyn Mounchensey," he said.
The impetuosity of Sir Giles's career carried him past his antagonist, but he now wheeled round, and regarded Mounchensey fiercely from beneath the bars of his helmet. "Retire, said you?" he exclaimed; "not unless you acknowledge yourself defeated.
"Which you strive to pay?" "Which I will pay." "You hear what this man says, Mounchensey?" Sir Giles cried. "You have been guilty of the same offence as he. Why should you not be similarly punished?" "If I were so punished, I would stab my prosecutor to the heart," Jocelyn replied.
I never could understand why it should be called the 'Stone Coffin' but so it is. Some prisoners have imagined they would get their death with cold from a single night passed within it but that's a mistaken notion altogether." "You have proof to the contrary in Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey, father of the present prisoner," said Sir Giles, in a derisive tone.
"Accursed spy and traitor," cried Mompesson, as he took hold of the body by the heels and dragged it to one corner "thou wilt never betray me more. What brought thee here I know not, unless it were to meet the death thou hast merited at my hands. Would a like chance might bring Osmond Mounchensey here and alone I would desire nothing more."
"Now listen to me, Sir Francis. It is quite true that Osmond Mounchensey quitted his home when very young, owing to some family quarrel; but it is not true that he died. On the contrary, I have recently ascertained, beyond a doubt, that he is still alive.
Chief amongst them was Jocelyn Mounchensey, who, having dismounted and fastened his horse to the branch, was leaning against the large trunk of the tree, contemplating the magnificent structure we have attempted to describe. Unacquainted as yet with its internal splendours, he had no difficulty in comprehending them from what he beheld from without.
Then turning to his followers, he added "Officers, at all hazards, attach the person of Dameris Bonaventure, and convey her to the Compter. At the same time, arrest the young man-beside her Jocelyn Mounchensey, who has uttered treasonable language against our sovereign lord the King. I will tell you how to dispose of him anon. Do my bidding at once."
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