With him I shall have happiness, without him black despair; and that is his case too, or so he swears.

Why, then, should you part us?
Is he not a proper man and of good lineage, and name unstained?
Until of late did you not ever favour him much and let us be together day by day?
And now, when it is too late, you deny him.

Oh! why, why ?" "You know why well enough, girl?
Because I have chosen another husband for you.

The Lord Despard is taken with your baby face, and would marry you.

But this morning I had it under his own hand." "The Lord Despard ?" gasped Cicely.