Chapter 35 A MYSTERIOUS LETTER

"Good company's a chess-board-there are kings,

Queens, bishops, knights, rooks, pawns.

The world's a game."

Byron.

"My soul hath felt a secret weight,

A warning of approaching fate."

Rokeby.

"Oh! lady, weep no more; lest I give cause

To be suspected of more tenderness

Than doth become a man."

Shakspeare.

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