Yet, if your lordship can bring any detailed proof--" Here they were interrupted by a flourish of trumpets.
"His Grace of Albany is unwontedly scrupulous today," said Douglas; "but it skills not wasting words--the time is past--these are March's trumpets, and I warrant me he rides at flight speed so soon as he passes the South Port.

We shall hear of him in time; and if it be as I have conjectured, he shall be met with though all England backed his treachery." "Nay, let us hope better of the noble earl," said the King, no way displeased that the quarrel betwixt March and Douglas had seemed to obliterate the traces of the disagreement betwixt Rothsay and his father in law; "he hath a fiery, but not a sullen, temper.

In some things he has been--I will not say wronged, but disappointed--and something is to be allowed to the resentment of high blood armed with great power.

But thank Heaven, all of us who remain are of one sentiment, and, I may say, of one house; so that, at least, our councils cannot now be thwarted with disunion.

Father prior, I pray you take your writing materials, for you must as usual be our clerk of council.