His Majesty's Well-Beloved

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Emma Orczy. His Majesty's Well-Beloved

CHAPTER I. How it all Began

CHAPTER II. THE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE

CHAPTER III. A CRIMINAL FOLLY

CHAPTER IV. MORE THAN A PASSING FANCY

CHAPTER V. THE OUTRAGE

CHAPTER VI. THE GATHERING STORM

CHAPTER VII. AN ASSEMBLY OF TRAITORS

CHAPTER VIII. THE LION'S WRATH

CHAPTER IX. A LAST CHANCE

CHAPTER X. THE HOUR

CHAPTER XI. RUMOURS AND CONJECTURES

CHAPTER XII. POISONED ARROWS

CHAPTER XIII. THE LADY PLEADS

CHAPTER XIV. THE RULING PASSION

CHAPTER XV. MORE DEAF THAN ADDERS

CHAPTER XVI. THE GAME OF LOVE

EPILOGUE

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After that memorable Day, Mistress, we were like naughty Children who were being punished for playing truant out of School. For Weeks and Months our Lives went on with dreary monotony, with never a chance of seeing Something of that outside World of which we had caught a glimpse. You continued to sew and to scrub and to be at the beck and call of a Scold. I went on copying legal Documents till my very Brain appeared atrophied, incapable of a single happy Thought or of a joyous Hope.

Out there in the great World, many things were happening. The Lord Protector died; his Son succeeded. And then England woke to the fact that she had never cared for these Regicides, Republicans and Puritans; that in her Heart she had always loved the martyred King and longed to set his Son once more upon his Throne.

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"At once?" asked Lord Douglas.

"At once. Yes, my Lord."

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