"I thought he went not till daybreak." "He gave satisfactory reasons, as I understand," said the domestic, "to the guard, and, as I hear, showed your lordship's signet--" "True--true," said the Earl; "yet he has been hasty.

Do any of his attendants remain behind ?" "Michael Lambourne, my lord," said the valet, "was not to be found when Sir Richard Varney departed, and his master was much incensed at his absence.

I saw him but now saddling his horse to gallop after his master." "Bid him come hither instantly," said Leicester; "I have a message to his master." The servant left the apartment, and Leicester traversed it for some time in deep meditation.

"Varney is over-zealous," he said, "over-pressing.
He loves me, I think; but he hath his own ends to serve, and he is inexorable in pursuit of them.

If I rise, he rises; and he hath shown himself already but too, eager to rid me of this obstacle which seems to stand betwixt me and sovereignty.