And you fancy that some change
may yet operate to your advantage with the king. It is a vain delusive
hope. If you leave this castle for the Tower, you will perish
ignominiously on the block."
"What will be, must be!" replied Anne. "I will not save myself in the way
you propose."
"Norris will say, and with reason, that you love him not," cried Herne.
"Then he will wrong me," replied Anne; "for I do love him. But of what
account were a few years of fevered happiness compared with endless
torture?"
"I will befriend you in spite of yourself," vociferated Herne, seizing her
arm; "you shall go with me!"
"I will not," said Anne, falling on her knees. "Oh, Father of Mercy!" she
cried energetically, "deliver me from this fiend!"
"Take your fate, then!" rejoined Herne, dashing her furiously
backwards.
And when her attendants, alarmed by the sound, rushed into the
chamber, they found her stretched on the floor in a state of
insensibility.
VII. How Herne appeared to Henry In the Home Park.
On that same night, at a late hour, a horseman, mounted on a powerful
steed, entered the eastern side of the home park, and stationed himself
beneath the trees.
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