"Your Highness may be sure that I will there inspect it.

Fear not, Master Warner; no further harm shall chance to thy contrivance." "Come, sir, forgive me," said the duke.

With gracious affability the young prince held out his hand, the fingers of which sparkled with costly gems, to the old man.

The old man bowed as if his beard would have swept the earth, but he did not touch the hand.

He seemed still in a state between dream and reason, life and death: he moved not, spoke not, till the men came to bear the model; and he then followed it, his arms folded in his gown, till, on entering the court, it was borne in a contrary direction from his own, to the chamberlain's apartment; then wistfully pursuing it with his eyes, he uttered such a sigh as might have come from a resigned father losing the last glimpse of a beloved son.
Richard hesitated a moment, loth to relinquish his research, and doubtful whether to follow the Eureka for renewed investigation; but partly unwilling to compromise his dignity in the eyes of Hastings, should his suspicions prove unfounded, and partly indisposed to risk the displeasure of the vindictive Duchess of Bedford by further molestation of one now under her protection, he reluctantly trusted all further inquiry to the well-known loyalty of Hastings.