BY MRS. GORDON SMYTHIES, AUTHOR OF "COUSIN GEOFFREY," "TRUE TO THE LAST," &c., &c. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1865. The right of Translation is reserved. 250. u. 209. MINA NUSTIO LONDON: PRINTED BY MACDONALD AND TUGWELL, BLENHEIM HOUSE, BLENHEIM STREET, OXFORD STREET. A FAITHFUL WOMAN. CHAPTER I. Thou shalt be punished for thus fighting me, Oppressed with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, A widow, husbandless, subject to fears, A woman, naturally born to fears. KING JOHN. FOR Some days before the trial of her son, the Countess of Armine had been afflicted by a sort of internal semi-consciousness of what was going on around her. The return of intelligence and the knowledge of her dreadful position were coupled with a species of almost cataleptic immobility of form and features. VOL. III. B |