As he spoke, he bowed with a determined but respectful reverence, and when he lifted up his head, the expression of his features told Alice that the doom of the king was irrevocably fixed.
“I see there is no hope,” said she, with a deep sigh, as Cromwell spoke these words in a tone of decision which left her no further encouragement, and with a brevity so unusual to him. Nor was his hint to close the interview lost upon her. “No hope!” she repeated, drawing back. “I leave you, then, inexorable man of iron, and may you not plead thus in vain for mercy at the bar of God.”
So saying, she turned, and rejoining her husband who remained in waiting for her, they returned together to Lisle’s house.
[To be continued.
THE BRIGAND AND HIS WIFE.
Engraved expressly for Graham’s Magazine by F. Humphrys
THE BRIGAND AND HIS WIFE.
[SEE ENGRAVING.]