For, as you said, the queen's heart is still free; it is, then, like a fruitful soil, which is only waiting for some one to sow the seed in it, to bring forth flowers and fruit.

Catharine Parr does not love the king; you will, then, teach her to love Henry Howard." "Yet, my father," said Lady Jane, with a sarcastic smile, "to bring about this result, one must, before all things, be acquainted with a magic spell, through the might of which the earl will first glow with love for Catharine.

For the queen has a proud soul, and she will never so forget her dignity as to love a man who is not inflamed with an ardent passion for her.

But the earl has not only a bride, but, as it is said, a mistress also." "Ah! you consider it, then, perfectly unworthy of a woman to love a man who does not adore her ?" asked the earl, in a significant tone.

"I am rejoiced to hear this from my daughter, and thus to be certain that she will not fall in love with the Earl of Surrey, who is everywhere else called 'the lady-killer.' And if you have informed yourself in so surprising a manner as to the earl's private relations, you have done so, without doubt, only because your sagacious and subtle head has already guessed what commission I would give you with respect to the earl.