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Neither the deputy-warden nor the jailer both of whom, as he knew, were the extortioner's creatures were to be informed of it till the last moment. Certain disclosures respecting Clement Lanyere, which were made by Luke Hatton to the young knight, affected him very deeply, and plunged him for a long time in painful thought.
Such as they were, however, these apartments were assigned to Aveline, when she was forcibly brought to the extortioner's habitation, as before narrated. Allowed to range within them at pleasure, she was kept strictly within their limits.
A strange smile crossed the extortioner's countenance. "And do you really think I would give it up thus, Sir Francis?" he said. "But if we sign that deed 'tis his. How are you to get it back again?" "Ask me not how I have no time for explanation. Recollect what I told you of Osmond Mounchensey, and the possibility of his re-appearance."
Buckingham, it appears, has more weight than I have. Yet this notorious extortioner's insolence and presumption ought not to pass unpunished." "They shall not, your highness," replied Sir Jocelyn. "I will so deal with him that I will warrant he will never dare show himself within the precincts of the palace again." "Do nothing rashly," said the Prince.
While the officer was thus employed, Luke Hatton stepped forward. "Those keys will be of little use," he said, to the Prince. "Others have been beforehand with your Highness." "How, Sir what others?" demanded Charles, bending his brows. "The extortioner's lawless band of attendants generally known as his myrmidons, your Highness," replied Hatton.
There was a large hall of entrance, where Sir Giles's myrmidons were wont to assemble, with a great table in the midst of it, on which no victuals were ever placed at least at the extortioner's expense and a great fire-place, where no fire ever burnt.
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