But I will make amends for it.

I will dissolve this adulterous marriage!'-- Do you know, child, why he would dissolve it ?" "Because he loved Anne Boleyn!" said Jane, with a smile.
"Perfectly correct! Catharine had grown old, and Henry was still a young man, and his blood shot through his veins like streams of fire.

Hut he was yet somewhat virtuous and timid, and the main peculiarity of his character was as yet undeveloped.

He was not yet bloodthirsty, that is to say, he had not yet licked blood.

But you will see how with each new queen his desire for blood increased, till at length it has now become a wasting disease.