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To lose Dougless and gain Lettice, he thought. If I went to bed with you, would that keep you from marrying that evil woman?” Nicholas was moving toward her, trying to take her in his arms, but he halted. He wanted to put his own child on the throne, only the beauteous Lettice, the woman a man had died for, was barren. 'He's to young.

She had no desire to spend the evening with Lee alone in his room. On the eve of departure she sat with him in her spacious reception room and said,'When you think of me, I'll be here in this house. Please find me a healthy, strong, reliable, Chris- tian girl of seventeen or eighteen, well-bred and loyal, who can be trusted to come here to marry my son. “Dougless,” he whispered, then closed his eyes.