"The devil aids him surely; for all that would sink another ten fathom deep seems but to make him float the more easily.

Had a follower of mine acted thus--" "Peace, my good lord," said Raleigh, "for God's sake, peace! Wait the change of the tide; it is even now on the turn." The acute observation of Raleigh, perhaps, did not deceive him; for Leicester's confusion was so great, and, indeed, for the moment, so irresistibly overwhelming, that Elizabeth, after looking at him with a wondering eye, and receiving no intelligible answer to the unusual expressions of grace and affection which had escaped from her, shot her quick glance around the circle of courtiers, and reading, perhaps, in their faces something that accorded with her own awakened suspicions, she said suddenly, "Or is there more in this than we see--or than you, my lord, wish that we should see?
Where is this Varney?
Who saw him ?" "An it please your Grace," said Bowyer, "it is the same against whom I this instant closed the door of the presence-room." "An it please me ?" repeated Elizabeth sharply, not at that moment in the humour of being pleased with anything.--"It does NOT please me that he should pass saucily into my presence, or that you should exclude from it one who came to justify himself from an accusation." "May it please you," answered the perplexed usher, "if I knew, in such case, how to bear myself, I would take heed--" "You should have reported the fellow's desire to us, Master Usher, and taken our directions.

You think yourself a great man, because but now we chid a nobleman on your account; yet, after all, we hold you but as the lead-weight that keeps the door fast.

Call this Varney hither instantly.
There is one Tressilian also mentioned in this petition.

Let them both come before us." She was obeyed, and Tressilian and Varney appeared accordingly.