“My heart, my dove, I only want to heal you. “Anna,” she cried, “you must believe me. “Wasn’t Parliament to
reassemble?”
He put out his hand and leaned against a tree and crossed his legs. Running his hand carefully over it
in search of the lock, he perceived to his dismay that it was fastened on the other
side. "No"—as if her thoughts were elsewhere. ’ The questions that had long haunted her came out at last. “Do you think it is fair of you to
persecute me just now?”
“It is not persecution, Anna,” he answered gently. He stood there, large and dark, enunciating, in his
clear voice from beneath his large mustache, clear flat sentences, deliberately
kindly. Opposite the
gallows was an open gallery, or scaffolding, like the stand at a racecourse,
which, on state occasions, was crowded with spectators. " On a shelf was placed a
row of paint-jars; the contents of which had been daubed in rainbow streaks
upon the adjacent closet and window sill. The aspect of the place, so far as he
could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his
eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against
the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the
present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. After encountering various
hardships and privations for a long time, during which he had no means of
communicating with England, he, at length, found his way to Paris, where he
was taken notice of by Cardinal Dubois, who employed him as one of his
secretaries, and subsequently advanced to the service of Philip of Orleans, from
whom he received a commission.
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