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The Lady Rochford lay back upon the floor in a great faint.
"Heaven help me! " the Queen said. "I had rather she had played the villain than been such a palterer. " She glided to the table and picked up the dagger that shone there beneath Culpepper's nose. "Take even this," she said to the King. "It is an ill thing to bestow. Sword he hath none."