This man's rude and clamorous grief only proves that the retribution I have dealt has been more widely felt than by the wretched sufferer himself.

I would I knew that it had but made sore as many rebel hearts, as there were loyal breasts afflicted by the death of my princely Derby!" "So please you, madam," said Lady Peveril, "since Master Bridgenorth hath not the manners to leave us upon my request, we will, if your ladyship lists, leave him, and retire to my apartment .-- Farewell, Master Bridgenorth; we will meet hereafter on better terms." "Pardon me, madam," said the Major, who had been striding hastily through the room, but now stood fast, and drew himself up, as one who has taken a resolution;--"to yourself I have nothing to say but what is respectful; but to this woman I must speak as a magistrate.

She has confessed a murder in my presence--the murder too of my brother-in-law--as a man, and as a magistrate, I cannot permit her to pass from hence, excepting under such custody as may prevent her farther flight.

She has already confessed that she is a fugitive, and in search of a place of concealment, until she should be able to escape into foreign parts .-- Charlotte, Countess of Derby, I attach thee of the crime of which thou hast but now made thy boast." "I shall not obey your arrest," said the Countess composedly; "I was born to give, but not to receive such orders.

What have your English laws to do with my acts of justice and of government, within my son's hereditary kingdom?
Am I not Queen in Man, as well as Countess of Derby?
A feudatory Sovereign indeed; but yet independent so long as my dues of homage are duly discharged.