Gilbert Parker

“ Filled to the turret, he lurched to his feet, and drinking to Sir Hugh's toast, "Her Sacred Majesty!" he clanked and roared "Elizabeth!" as though upon the field of battle. He felt the star of de Carteret declining and Rozel's glory ascending like a comet. Once set in a course, nothing could change him. Other men might err, but, once right, the Seigneur of Rozel was always right.
For of late he had made the cause of Michel de la Forêt and Angèle Aubert his own. ”

“ I'll bear myself like a man that's not speaking for himself. I'll speak as Harry her father spoke—straight to the purpose. . . . No, no, no, Sir Hugh, I'm not to be wheedled, even by a Pawlett, and you shall not ask me. If you want Michel de la Forêt, come and take him. He is in my house. But ye must take him, Sir Hugh, for come he shall not! ”

“ She was set to have the man, either through diplomacy with England, or to end him by assassination through her spies. Having determined upon his death, with relentless soul she pursued the cause as closely as though this exiled soldier were a powerful enemy at the head of an army in France. ”