Alack ! '' she added , pausing . `` I have spoilt you , Dick ! I have knocked some of the paint off . But that can be mended . What can not be mended , Dick -- or I much fear it can not ! -- is my marriage with Lord Shoreby . '' `` Is it decided , then ? '' asked the lad . `` To-morrow , before noon , Dick , in the abbey church , '' she answered , `` John Matcham and Joanna Sedley both shall come to a right miserable end . There is no help in tears , or I could weep mine eyes out . I have not spared myself to pray , but Heaven frowns on my petition . And , dear Dick -- good Dick -- but that ye can get me forth of this house before the morning , we must even kiss and say good-bye . '' `` Nay , '' said Dick , `` not I ; I will never say that word . 'T is like despair ; but while there 's life , Joanna , there is hope . Yet will I hope . Ay , by the mass , and triumph ! Look ye , now , when ye were but a name to me , did I not follow -- did I not rouse good men -- did I not stake my life upon the quarrel ? And now that I have seen you for what ye are -- the fairest maid and stateliest of England -- think ye I would turn ? -- if the deep sea were there , I would straight through it ; if the way were full of lions , I would scatter them like mice . ''
`` XXXXX , '' she said , dryly , `` ye make a great ado about a sky-blue robe ! ''
Ay Dick England Joanna Matcham Sedley Shoreby morning noon right