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And if thou sayst thou canst not feel the pains that absence brings, 'Tis that thy heart has never known love's gentle whisperings. 'Tis that thy fickle mind has me relinquished here to pine, Like some old slave forgotten in this palace court of thine. Ah, little dost thou reck of me, of all my pleasures flown, But in thy pride dost only think, false lady, of thine own.
Fain would I bring it to pass that it may be said of me: Rightly doth he rule both folk and land. Of this shall my head and honor be a pledge. Now be ye so bold, as hath been told me, I reck not be it lief or loth to any man, I will gain from you whatso ye have land and castles shall be subject to my hand."
"We reck not, an our life escape from bane, * For waste of wealth and gear that went in vain: Money may be regained and rank re-won * When one is cured of malady and pain."
A few minutes more, and Lord Hartledon and his care went out. Mr. Carr called in his clerk. "I want to know how you came to learn that the man I asked you about, Gordon, was employed by Kedge and Reck?" "I heard it through a man named Druitt," was the ready answer.
"He is your son, and he is as you have made him." "As I have made him?" quoth she, and her glance challenged the friar. "By what right did you make of him a votive offering? By what right did you seek to consecrate a child unborn to a claustral life without thought of his character, without reck of the desires that should be his?
My song, though none to learn thee lend an ear, I reck the less thereof, indeed, that none Could sing thee even as I; One only charge I give thee, ere I die, That thou find Love and unto him alone Show fully how undear This bitter life and drear Is to me, craving of his might he deign Some better harbourage I may attain.
"My conclusion is the Gordon you spoke to me about was the Gordon who led the mutiny on board the Morning Star; that he never, after that, came back to England; has never been heard of, in short, by any living soul in it. That the Gorton employed by Kedge and Reck was another man altogether.
Accordingly, feigning to reck no more of that whereof she showed herself so chary, he made one night by way of special festival a goodly supper, whereto he bade the lady, and therein, the repast being gladdened with many things, he took order with him who served her that he should give her to drink of various wines mingled.
Meantime, withdraw I loved thine infancy, I hate not thy youth no eye hates the rose in its blossom, though it groweth upon a thorn, and for thee only do I something regret what is soon to follow. But he that would avenge him of his foe must not reck though the guiltless be engaged in the ruin."
Up some dark and dingy stairs, he knocked at a dark and dingy door: which, after a minute, opened of itself by some ingenious contrivance, and let him into a passage, whence he turned into a room, where two clerks were writing at a desk. "Can I see Mr. Kedge?" "Not in," said one of the clerks, without looking up. "Mr. Reck, then?" "Not in."
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