His courtesy had professed to deny nothing to her wishes except her personal liberty and any conference with her parents or aunt.

Her father's life, he declared it was altogether out of his power to grant.

He might suspend the sentence, but he could not abrogate it.
"Yes," cried the earl, "though false and inflexible, I must not accuse him of having been so barbarous in his tyranny as Cressingham.

For it was not until De Valence was taken prisoner that Joanna and I were divided.

Till then we were lodged in decent apartments, but on that event Cressingham tore us from each other, and threw us into different dungeons.