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Had'st thou but shook thy head or made a pause When I spake darkly. Or turned an eye of doubt upon my face As bid me tell my tale in express words. -SHAKESPEARE (_King John_).
Before her mirror the next morning Lady Lochore sat wrapt in sullen thoughts, thoughts of impotent anger, of failure, punctuated now and again by glances at her own ravaged countenance.