, June 15 1220.

Note 2. "In the octave of Holy Trinity" [May 25--June 1], at Alnwick.--
Roberts' Extracts from Fines Rolls, 1225.

Note 3. This terrible fact has been strangely ignored by many modern
historians.--_Rot. Exit., Michs_., 25-6 Henry Third.

Note 4. A drug which deadens the sensibilities--of the vivisector--by
rendering the victim incapable of sound or motion, but not affecting the
nerves of sensation in the least.

Note 5. This was in 1234, when our story begins, the English diminutive
of Margaret, and was doubtless derived from the French Margot.

Note 6. Any reader who is inclined to doubt this is requested to
consult Acts fifteen, 4, 22. It is unquestionably the teaching of the
New Testament. The clergy form part of the Church merely as individual
Christians.

CHAPTER TWO.

"WHAT DO YOU LACK?"

"If pestilence stalk through the land, ye say, This is God's doing.
Is it not also His doing, when an aphis creepeth on a rosebud?"

_Martin F. Tupper_.

Earl Hubert was far too busy a man to waste his time in lounging on
velvet settles and exchanging sallies of wit with the ladies of his
household. He had done little more than give a cordial welcome to
Marjory, and pat Margaret on the head, when he again disappeared, to be
seen no more until supper-time.

"Well, Magot," said Marjory, sitting down in the chair, while Margaret
as before accommodated herself with a footstool at her feet, "let us get
on with thy story. I want to know all about that affair two years ago.
Thy fair father looks wonderfully well, methinks, considering all that
he has gone through."

"Does he not? O Aunt Marjory, I scarcely know how I am to tell you
about that. It was dreadful,--dreadful!"

And the tears stood in big drops on Margaret's eyelashes.

"Well, I will try," she said, with a deep sigh, as Marjory stroked her
hair. "In the first place, the year ended all very well. My fair
father had been created Justiciary of Ireland for life, and Constable of
the Tower, and various favours had been granted to him. That he should
be on the brink of trouble--and such trouble!--was the very last thing
thought of by any one of us. And then that Bishop of Winchester came
back, and before a soul knew anything about it, he was high in the Lord
King's favour, and on the twenty-ninth of July--(I am not likely to
forget _that_ date!)--the blow fell."

"He was dismissed, then, was he not, from all his offices,