The tiger was again aroused in him; he had calmly waited for the moment when the promised prey would be brought to him; now, when it seemed to be escaping him, his savage and cruel disposition started up within him.

The tiger panted and thirsted for blood; and that he was not to get it, made him raging with fury.
With a wild movement he threw the rosette on the ground, and raised his arm menacingly toward Henry Howard.

"Dare not to touch that rosette," cried he, in a voice of thunder, "before you have exculpated yourself from the guilt of which you are accused." Earl Surrey looked him steadily and boldly in the eye.

"Have I been accused, then ?" asked he.

"Then I demand, first of all, that I be confronted with my accusers, and that my fault be named!" "Ha, traitor! Do you dare to brave me ?" yelled the king, stamping furiously with his foot.