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ONE:"You heard what the judge said," returned Oakley: "but, however, you are a sworn jury-man, and here you must remain till you've brought your mind to bear upon the point."

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ONE:Robert turned round and faced Bardon, whose eyes rested approvingly on the gleaming froth of Bessie's hair."Stephen!" said the galleyman, from below.

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ONE:On her right hand rode her husband, clad in a tunic of fine cloth, in colour resembling the habit of his lady, and mounted on a dark, fiery charger, which with difficulty he could rein in to the slow pace of the palfrey. On the left of the lady Isabella was her brother, young Robert de Vere, and though but a boy, one might have read much in the lines of that countenance, of his future destiny. His smooth, dimpled chin, was small and round, and his mouth possessed that habitual smile, that softly beaming expression, which won for him in after years the regard of the superficial Richard; while there shone a fire in the full dark eyes, which betokened the ambitious spirit that was to animate the future lord of Dublin, and sovereign of Ireland.She offered him a chair, and he sat down. Her coldness seemed to drive back the tides that had suddenly flooded his lips, and slowly too they began to ebb from his heart. Whom had he come to see?��the only woman he had ever loved, whose love he had hoped to catch again in these his latter days, and hold transmuted into tender friendship, till he went back to his earth? Not so, it seemed��but an old woman who had once been a girl, with whom he had nothing in common, and from whom he had travelled so far that they could scarcely hear each other's voices across the country that divided them. Alice broke the silence by offering him some tea.

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ONE:Holgrave looked at them an instant��Reuben looked a little blank. None of the details of his great desire had hitherto struck him as vulgar.

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ONE:The struggle was terrible; it wore him out. He fought it desperately��to neither side would he surrender an inch. Sometimes with Rose's arms about him, her soft cheek against his and her perfidy forgotten, he would be on the brink of giving her the pretty costly thing, whatever it was, that she wanted at the expense of Odiam. At others, out in his fields, or on the slope of Boarzell��half wild, half tamed��with all those unconquered regions swelling above him, he would feel that he could almost gladly lose Rose altogether, if to keep her meant the sacrifice of one jot of his ambition, one tittle of his hope. Then he would go home, and find her ogling Handshut through the window, or giving tea in her most seductive manner to some young idiot with clean hands��and round would go the wheel again��round and round...."Stephen Holgrave, my lord, has not yet finished his fealty."

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ONE:"Can it be?" said Holgrave, as he looked before him at the castle, which the tapers revealed��"Can it be, that the lord of this castle and I are the sons of the same heavenly Father? Can the same God have created us?��and is his child to live and grow to manhood, that he may trample on his fellow men, as his father has trampled on me? Is this to go on from generation to generation, and the sons to become even worse than the fathers?��No!" said he, pausing; "I have no child��Margaret must forgive me��I have only a worthless life to forfeit." He paused again. "I will attempt it!" he said, vehemently��"he can but hang me; and if I succeed, the noble blood they think so much of may yet����" Holgrave suffered the sentence to remain unfinished, and he rushed towards the castle.