The Five Nights of St. Albans: a Romance of the Sixteenth Century 1
The Five Nights of St. Albans: a Romance of the Sixteenth Century 1
Mudford, William 1782-1848
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" • They all gathered mournfully round the body. "It would seem," said Lacy, " as if some violent con- vulsion had seized him, from the livid colour of the face, and this appearance of strangulated blood in the throat." The features were slightly distorted, apparently with overpowering terror; and round the throat there was a black mark, such as Lacy had described. "Poor fool!" exclaimed De Clare, " ihou shouldst have died in thy bed; but the^ ambition to be what thou art not, pricked thee on t...o fincl an untimely grave here. A church -yard sprite, formed, ere the cock crew, by the deceitful beams of the moon, would have done as much for thee, but thou always hadst wit enough to keep the high way." "He was ever a timorous creature," observed Mortimer. OP ST. ALBANS. 87 *' Ay, sir," replied De Clare, "and fear ever builds her throne of shadows in such natures." *'It will be a heavy hour for his now childless mother, when slie hears of it!" responded Mortimer. *• But a merry one for some, I ween," said De Clare, with a stinging emphasis; '*for bondless debtors, who enrolled themselves his friends, and made themselves — the minions of his purse." " You have the advantage of me," replied Mortimer, with an air of easy indifference; *'I protest, by my cha- racter, your speech ranges farther than I can discern," *'LiKe enough — -Jike enough," answered De Clare.
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