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It was three days afterwards that the earl, as, according to custom, Anne knelt to him for his morning blessing in the oratory where the Christian baron at matins and vespers offered up his simple worship, drew her forth into the air, and said abruptly, --
"Wouldst thou be happy if Richard of Gloucester were thy betrothed?"