The space is passed,--I now speak, and do your lordship the justice to address myself first to you." The thrill of astonishment which had penetrated to Leicester's very heart at hearing that name pronounced by the voice of the man he most detested, and by whom he conceived himself so deeply injured, at first rendered him immovable, but instantly gave way to such a thirst for revenge as the pilgrim in the desert feels for the water-brooks.

He had but sense and self-government enough left to prevent his stabbing to the heart the audacious villain, who, after the ruin he had brought upon him, dared, with such unmoved assurance, thus to practise upon him further.

Determined to suppress for the moment every symptom of agitation, in order to perceive the full scope of Tressilian's purpose, as well as to secure his own vengeance, he answered in a tone so altered by restrained passion as scarce to be intelligible, "And what does Master Edmund Tressilian require at my hand ?" "Justice, my lord," answered Tressilian, calmly but firmly.
"Justice," said Leicester, "all men are entitled to.

YOU, Master Tressilian, are peculiarly so, and be assured you shall have it." "I expect nothing less from your nobleness," answered Tressilian; "but time presses, and I must speak with you to-night.

May I wait on you in your chamber ?" "No," answered Leicester sternly, "not under a roof, and that roof mine own.