[The Last Of The Barons Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Of The Barons Complete CHAPTER V 7/15
At this moment, one of the attendants of Henry descended the stairs of the Wakefield Tower, with a request that the model might be carried up to divert the prisoner. Richard paused a moment, as the officer hesitatingly watched his countenance before giving the desired permission.
But the prince, turning to him, and smoothing his brow, said mildly, "Certes! all that can divert the Lord Henry must be innocent pastime.
And I am well pleased that he hath this cheerful mood for recreation.
It gainsayeth those who would accuse us of rigour in his durance.
Yes, this warrant is complete and formal;" and the prince returned the passport to the officer, and walked slowly on through that gloomy arch ever more associated with Richard of Gloucester's memory, and beneath the very room in which our belief yet holds that the infant sons of Edward IV. breathed their last; still, as Gloucester moved, he turned and turned, and kept his eye furtively fixed upon the porter. "Lovell," he said to one of the gentlemen who attended him, and who was among the few admitted to his more peculiar intimacy, "that man is of the North." "Well, my lord ?" "The North was always well affected to the Lancastrians.
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