Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-04-16

Some touch of shame came to the
young mans cold neart, and he spoke
to his father as the officers were about
to lead him away.
81 have been wrong, l have misun.
derstood you, SIR" he said, and he
seemed about to hold out his hand.
But it was too late. The old man
turned on him, shaking his shaggy
head.
Never, sir, while live! The wrong
to me is little. I can take my broken
life into foreign land and die dis
ored and forgotten. But my other child,
my one dear child who has suffered
year after year with me--for the wrong
you have done her, / never, never, never
will forgive you'll Not for love of you
have I spoken as did to-day, but for
the honor of the Enderbys, and be-
cause you were the child of your moth
erl"
Two davs later at SOUTHAMPTON the
old man boarded little packet boat,
bound for Havre.
The years went by again. At last all
was changed in England. The mon
archy was restored, and all the land
was smiling and content. One dav
thc1c was a private reading in the
queens chamber. The voice of the
reader moved in pleasant yet vibrant
modulations:-
"The king was now come to time
I when his enemies wicledly began to
, riot against him secretly and to OPP
| pose him in>his purposes; which, in
| his own mind, were bencticent and
J mngnanimous. From the shire where
his labors had been most unselfish
came the first malignant insult to his
, person and the first peril 10 his life
prefguring the hellish plots and vio-
lcnce which drove him to his august
!, nartyrdom-"
!, The king had entered quietly as the
: y-in-waiting read this passage to
the queen, and, attracted by her voice,
. continued TO listen, signifying to the
:. queen, by n gesture, that she and her
= ladies were not to rise. This was in
the time when Charles was yet de-
!. voted to his princess of Portugal, and
= while she was yet hpppy and undis-
turbcd by rumors-or assurances-of
!, her lords wandering affections.
u "And what shire was that?" asked the
king at that point where the chronicler
, spoke of his royal fathers august
martyrdom."
"The shire of Lincoln, your ma jesty,"
" said the young LADY, flushing, and, ris'
ing from her footstool at the queens
= feet, she made the king an elaborate
. courtesy.
Charles made n gentle and playful
~ gesture of dissent from her extreme
% formality, and, with look of admira
ton, continued:
% "NIy Lord Rippingdale should know
- somewhat of that first violence OF
which you have read, Mistress Talking
ham. He is of Lincolnshire"
10 "IIe knows all, your majesty; he was
present at that first Violence"
'e at would be amusing for Rip
Z pingdale to hear these records IN
> Lord Clarcndon's, are they not? All
:, not in the formal copy of his work
- And by order of my Lord Rippingdale
Indeed! Indeed And wherefore. my
- Lord Rippngdalc?"
= "Shall l read on, your majesty?'
y asked the young lady, with heightene,
y color, and IL look of adventure anc
80 purpose in her eyes. Perhaps, too
:, there was n look of anger in them-no
>" against the king, for there was sor
:, of eagerness or appealing in the glanc
- She cast toward his majesty
The queen lifted her eyes to the kin!
'e half doubtfully, for the question seeme'
to her pcrilous, Charles being little in
ne chncd, as Il rule, to sit long III her cham
'h her or listen to serious reading, thong
&c hi was ever gay in conversation, an
alert for witty badinage. His majesty
~ however, seemed more than complais
- ant, he was even boyishly eager.
~ The young lady had been but n shor
w time in the household, having com
80 over with the queen from Portugal
,o' where she had been brought to tn
va ' notice of the then princess by he
great GOODNESS and bravery in re-
80 cuing u young lady of Lisbon froi
~ grave peril. She had told tn
princess then that she was the daughtc
~, of an eXiled English gentleman, an
was in the care of her aunt, one Nil
.'t trcss Falltingham. while her father WA
~ gone on an expedition to Italy. TIL
=" princess, eager to learn English, Ell
gagged her, and she had remained i
u, the palace till the princess left for En-
IL land. A year passed, and then tn
hu queen of England sent for her and sh
en had been brought close to the person {
'e' her majesty
At a motion from Charles, who 50
I'm upon couch, idly tapping the buckle
Oh his shoes with his gold-handled stat
get the young lady placed herself again {
IRE the queens feet and continued reut
ne ing.
at was when the king was come
Boston town upon the business of Il
Fcns and to confer some honors and il
uuire into the taxes, and for the flu
) Their purpose of visiting good subje'
NJ Iouth, who knew of the secret piar
of Pym and Hampden, that this sham
full violence befell our pious and illu
trious prince. With him was my LoI
;. Rippingdale and"
"Ah, all, my Lord RiPpingdale!" sa
Charles, half aloud, 80 this is whei
-, my lord and secret history meet-n
dear, dumb lord!"
Continuing, the young lady read
fair and just account of the king