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Kenilworthto the morning’s revielle. There was doubt, and fear, and expectationon every brow, and surmise and intrigue in every whisper.CHAPTER XXXV.Blount took an opportunity to whisper into Raleigh’s ear,Sincerity,“This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean.”Thou first of virtues! let no mortal leave“Varium et mutabile,” answered Raleigh, in a similar tone. Thy onward path, although the earth should gape,“Nay, I know nought of your Latin,” said Blount; “but I And from the gulf of hell destruction cry,thank God Tressilian took not the sea during that hurricane. To take dissimulation’s winding way.He could scarce have missed shipwreck, knowing as he doesso little how to trim his sails to a court gale.”Douglas.“Thou wouldst have instructed him!” said Raleigh.“Why, I have profited by my time as well as thou, Sir Walter,” IT WAS NOT till after a long and successful morning’s sport, andreplied honest Blount. “I am knight as well as thou, and of a prolonged repast which followed the return of the Queen tothe earlier creation.”the Castle, that Leicester at length found himself alone with“Now, God further thy wit,” said Raleigh. “But for Varney, from whom he now learned the whole particulars ofTressilian, I would I knew what were the matter with him. the Countess’s escape, as they had been brought to KenilworthHe told me this morning he would not leave his chamber for by Foster, who, in his terror for the consequences, had himselfthe space of twelve hours or thereby, being bound by a promise.This lady’s madness, when he shall learn it, will not, I fear, especial care to be silent concerning those practices on theposted thither with the tidings. As Varney, in his narrative, tookcure his infirmity. The moon is at the fullest, and men’s brains Countess’s health which had driven her to so desperate a resolution,Leicester, who could only suppose that she had adopted itare working like yeast. But hark! they sound to mount. Letus to horse, Blount; we young knights must deserve our spurs.” out of jealous impatience to attain the avowed state and ap-388