When I saw her upon her knees beside the motionless figure, the head pillowed on her arm, her hand busy with the fastenings about throat and bosom, her dark face as womanly tender as any English mother's bending over her nursling; and when I saw my wife, with a little moan, creep further into the encircling arms, I was satisfied.
"Come away!" I said, and, followed by Diccon, went out and shut the door.
My Lord Carnal was never one to let the grass grow beneath his feet.
An hour later came his cartel, borne by no less a personage than the Secretary of the colony.
I took it from the point of that worthy's rapier.

It ran thus: "SIR,--At what hour to-morrow and at what place do you prefer to die?
And with what weapon shall I kill you ?" "Captain Percy will give me credit for the profound reluctance with which I act in this affair against a gentleman and an officer so high in the esteem of the colony," said Master Pory, with his hand upon his heart.

"When I tell him that I once fought at Paris in a duel of six on the same side with my late Lord Carnal, and that when I was last at court my Lord Warwick did me the honor to present me to the present lord, he will see that I could not well refuse when the latter requested my aid." "Master Pory's disinterestedness is perfectly well known," I said, without a smile.

"If he ever chooses the stronger side, sure he has strong reasons for so doing.

He will oblige me by telling his principal that I ever thought sunrise a pleasant hour for dying, and that there could be no fitter place than the field behind the church, convenient as it is to the graveyard.