[The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 by W. Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star-Chamber, Volume 2 CHAPTER II 16/16
Were she to take the quantity you have taken, it would kill her.
Am I now at liberty to depart ?" "You are," replied Lady Lake. So saying, she struck the bell, and immediately afterwards the door was opened; not, however, by the attendants, but by Sir Thomas Lake. As the Secretary of State perceived that the apothecary avoided him, and would have passed forth quickly, he sternly and authoritatively commanded him to stay, exclaiming, "You stir not hence, till you have accounted to me for my daughter, who, I understand, is dying from your pernicious treatment.
What ho, there! Keep strict watch without; and suffer not this man to pass forth!".
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