'Fore heaven, if only I were a King!" "Heaven has its own times, sir," said Carford insidiously.

But the Duke, suffering from disappointed desire, was not to be led to affairs of State.
"She's gone," he exclaimed again.

"By God, sooner than lose her, I'd have married her." This speech made me start.

She was near him; what if she had been as near him as I, and had heard those words?
A pang shot through me, and, of its own accord, my hand moved to my sword-hilt.
"She is beneath your Grace's station.

The spouse of your Grace may one day be----" Carford interrupted himself with a laugh, and added, "What God wills." "So may Anne Hyde," exclaimed the Duke.