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Sir Walter Scottto every suspicion rather than that.”The tears rose to her eyes, as she stood silent before Tressilian;while, looking on her with mingled grief and pity, he said,“Alas! Amy, your eyes contradict your tongue. That speaks ofa protector, willing and able to watch over you; but these tellme you are ruined, and deserted by the wretch to whom youhave attached yourself.”She looked on him with eyes in which anger sparkledthrough her tears, but only repeated the word “wretch!” witha scornful emphasis.“Yes, wretch!” said Tressilian; “for were he aught better, whyare you here, and alone, in my apartment? why was not fittingprovision made for your honourable reception?”“In your apartment?” repeated Amy—”in your apartment?It shall instantly be relieved of my presence.” She hastenedtowards the door; but the sad recollection of her deserted stateat once pressed on her mind, and pausing on the threshold,she added, in a tone unutterably pathetic, “Alas! I had forgot—Iknow not where to go—”“I see—I see it all,” said Tressilian, springing to her side, andleading her back to the seat, on which she sunk down. “Youdo need aid—you do need protection, though you will notown it; and you shall not need it long. Leaning on my arm, asthe representative of your excellent and broken-hearted father,on the very threshold of the Castle gate, you shall meetElizabeth; and the first deed she shall do in the halls ofKenilworth shall be an act of justice to her sex and her subjects.Strong in my good cause, and in the Queen’s justice, thepower of her minion shall not shake my resolution. I willinstantly seek Sussex.”“Not for all that is under heaven!” said the Countess, muchalarmed, and feeling the absolute necessity of obtaining time,at least, for consideration. “Tressilian, you were wont to begenerous. Grant me one request, and believe, if it be yourwish to save me from misery and from madness, you will domore by making me the promise I ask of you, than Elizabethcan do for me with all her power.”“Ask me anything for which you can allege reason,” saidTressilian; “but demand not of me—”“Oh, limit not your boon, dear Edmund!” exclaimed theCountess —”you once loved that I should call you so—limitnot your boon to reason; for my case is all madness, and frenzy321

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