Part 6 (1/2)

FABIANI (_aside_)

The devil! This is a dangerous man

THE MAN

Shall I tell youthe last ht This is the third ti for you

FABIANI

Keep still Do you want hush-money? How much do you want?

THE MAN

We will see about that by-and-by Now, irl?

FABIANI

By my faith! because I was in love with her

THE MAN

No You were not in love with her

FABIANI

I wasn't in love with Jane

THE MAN

No more than with the Queen! Love, oh, no! calculation, yes

FABIANI

Why, fool, you are no man at all! You are my conscience dressed up like a Jew

THE MAN

I will speak to you as if I were your conscience This is your plan

You are the Queen's favorite The Queen has given you the garter, an earldoarter is a rag; the earldoht to have your head cut off You wanted so more You wanted fine lands, fine bailiwicks, fine castles, fine revenues in fine English pounds Well, King Henry VIII confiscated the estates of Lord Talbot, as beheaded sixteen years ago You got Queen Mary to give you Lord Talbot's estates But, to ift valid, it is necessary that Lord Talbot should have died without heirs And since Lord Talbot died for Queen Mary and for her on, since Lord Talbot was a Papist, and since the Queen is a Papist, it is not at all doubtful, if there existed such an heir or an heiress, that Queen Mary would take back the estates froratitude and religion, return them to the heir or heiress You were quite easy on that score, for Lord Talbot had never had but one little daughter; she disappeared from her cradle at the tiland believed her to be dead But your spies have lately discovered that during the night in which Lord Talbot and his partisans were exterht to an engraver on London Bridge, and that it was probable that this child, reared under the nairl who had disappeared It is true that the written proofs of her birth were lacking, but they ht be found any day The discovery was unpleasant It would be hard to see one's self forced soive back Shrewsbury, Wexford, which is a fine city, and the irl! What was to be done? You searched for a way to set aside this young girl, and to destroy her An honest man would have had her killed or poisoned

You, my lord, have done better--you have dishonored her

FABIANI

Insolent fool!

THE MAN

It is your conscience which is speaking, irl's life; you have taken her honor, and, consequently, her future Queen Mary is a prude, although she has lovers herself