He hastily dismounted and mingled with the populace, they bore him onward through another postern to that by which the other crowds had impelled Gloucester.

Finding the space before them already occupied, these two human streams, of course, met and conjoined in the centre; and the two earls stood side by side.

Gloucester, as we have said, wholly unconscious of Buchan's vicinity, and Buchan watching his anxious and sorrowful looks with the satisfaction of a fiend, revelling in his being thus hemmed in on all sides, and compelled to witness the execution of his friend.

He watched him closely as he spoke with the minstrel, but tried in vain to distinguish what they said.

He looked on the page too, and with some degree of wonder, though he believed it only mortal terror which made him look thus, natural in so young a child; but afterwards that look was only too fatally recalled.
Sleepless and sad had been that long night to another inmate of Berwick Castle, as well as to Nigel and his Agnes.