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While such the entrance of Marmaduke Nevile into a court, that if far less intellectual and refined than those of later days, was yet more calculated to dazzle the fancy, to sharpen the wit, and to charm the senses, for round the throne of Edward IV. chivalry was magnificent, intrigue restless, and pleasure ever on the wing, Sibyll had ample leisure in her solitary home to muse over the incidents that had preceded the departure of the young guest.
He believed that if that model were once repaired, and in his possession, he could do what he knew not, but certainly all that was wanting to complete his glory, and to bubble the public. Unconscious of all that was at work against him, Adam threw his whole heart and soul into his labour; and happy in his happiness, Sibyll once more smiled gratefully upon Hastings, from whom the rapture came.
"It will be more pleasure to remember that it supplied the wants of my father's guest," said Sibyll; and retracing the way up the stairs, she returned with the broken instrument, and despatched Madge with it, laden with instructions that the wine should be of the best.
Madge, bush!" cried Sibyll, while Adam gazed in evident perturbation and awakening shame at the intruder, turning his eyes round the room as she spoke, and heaving from time to time short, deep sighs. "But I will not hush," pursued the old woman; "I will say my say, for I love ye both, and I loved my poor mistress who is dead and gone. Ah, sir, groan! it does you good. She! Oh, out on your heart!
"Ah," he said suddenly, and with a quick faint blush over his handsome and manly countenance, "ah, fair maid fair Sibyll God grant that I may win something of gold and fortune amidst yonder towers, on which the sun shines so cheerly. God grant it, not for my sake, not for mine; but that I may have something besides a true heart and a stainless name to lay at thy feet. Oh, Sibyll!
We sober sons of the stall and the ware are no general gallants, we love plainly, we love but once, and we love heartily. But who knows not the proverb, 'What's a gentleman but his pleasure? and what's pleasure but change? When Sibyll came to the palace, I soon heard her name linked with yours; I saw her cheek blush when you spoke.
"Alack," said he, turning to Sibyll, "even though we may escape the Tower, no boatman now can be found on the river. The way through the streets is dark and perilous, and beset with midnight ruffians." "Verily," said Warner, "the danger is past now. Let the noble demoiselle rest here till morning. The king dare not again " "Dare not!" interrupted Marmaduke. "Alas! you little know King Edward."
I will speak to the Lord Hastings, a man of great excellence, and gentle too. He is ever kind to us." "No, no, Father, not to him," cried Sibyll, turning pale, "let him not know a word of what we would propose, nor whither we would fly." "Child, he loves me, or why does he seek me so often, and sit and talk not?"
And for what, for what, sir? For the neighbours to set fire to your father's house, and the little ones to " "Forbear, woman!" cried Adam, in a voice of thunder; "forbear! Heavens!" And he waved his hand as he spoke, with so unexpected a majesty that Madge was awed into sudden silence, and, darting a look of compassion at Sibyll, she hobbled from the room.
"Ay!" said the Nevile, "the parings of the gentry begin to be the wealth of the varlets." "Little ought we to pine at that," returned Sibyll, "if the varlets were but gentle with our poverty; but they loathe the humbled fortunes on which they rise, and while slaves to the rich, are tyrants to the poor."
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