"A man haunted as I am can hardly account for all his utterances.

I have come to do you a service, and, having done it, might have withdrawn without a word.

But the sight of you recalled the honest words you spoke to the usurper this afternoon.

Sirs, I envied you then; and just now an insane longing took hold of me to set myself right with two such inflexible friends of King James." "Would it not be more to the point if you first obtained pardon from King James himself ?" "I have done so." "Well, my lord, I cannot yet see what your affairs have to do with us.

But if it will give you any pleasure that we should believe these remarkable statements--" "I have assured you that it will." "Then perhaps you will produce some proof of them in black and white." The Earl drew a folded paper from his breast and spread it upon the table before them.