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PAUL CLIFFORD.
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CHAPTER XII.


Butler.—What are these, Sir?
Yeoman.—And of what nature—to what use?
Latroch.—Imagine?

The Tragedy of Rollo.


Quickly.—He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.

Henry V.


The stream of our narrative now conducts us back to William Brandon. The law-promotions previously intended were completed; and to the surprise of the public, the envied barrister, undergoing the degradation of knighthood, had, at the time we return to him, just changed his toilsome occupations for the serene dignity of the Bench. Whatever regret this wily and aspir-