"There!" whispered the jester, chuckling maliciously "there! did I speak
falsely--eh, gossip?
Richmond laid his hand upon his sword.
"Hist!" said the jester; "hear what the Fair Geraldine has to say."
"We must meet no more thus, Surrey," she murmured:
"I feel I was wrong in granting the interview, but I could not help it. If,
when a few more years have flown over your head, your heart remains
unchanged
"It will never change!" interrupted Surrey. "I here solemnly pledge my
troth to you."
"And I return the pledge," replied the Fair Geraldine earnestly. "I vow to
be yours, and yours only."
"Would that Richmond could hear your vow!" said Surrey; "it would
extinguish his hopes."
"He has heard it! "cried the duke, advancing. "But his hopes are not yet
extinguished."
The Fair Geraldine uttered a slight scream, and disengaged herself from
the earl.
"Richmond, you have acted unworthily in thus playing the spy," said
Surrey angrily.
"None but a spy can surprise interviews like these," rejoined Richmond
bitterly. "The Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald had better have kept her
chamber, than come here to plight her troth with a boy, who will change
his mind before his beard is grown.
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