CHAPTER LXVII.

REMEMBER! When the king had ended his confession, he partook of the Holy Communion, and then asked to see his children. It was striking ten o'clock; therefore, as the king had said, the delay had not been great. Yet the people had already gathered. The king's children then arrived--first, the Princess Elizabeth, a beautiful fair-haired child, with tears in her eyes, and then the Duke of Gloucester, a boy eight or nine years old, whose tearless eyes and curling lip revealed a growing pride. He had wept all night lon…