PRINCE RICARDO. I7I

CHAPTER VI.

Ricardo’s Repentance.

  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

HE queen; as it
happened  fortuna-
tely, was lunching
with one of. the
ladies of her Court.
Ricardo did not
come down to
luncheon, and Jaq-
f\ueline ate hers
alone; and very
“mournful she felt.
4s The prince had
certainly not come
well out of the adventure. He had failed (as
all attempts to restore the Stuarts always
did); he had been wounded, though he had
never received a scratch in any of his earlier
exploits; and if his honour was safe, and
his good intentions fully understood, that was
chiefly due to Jaqueline, and to the generosity
of King James and Prince Charles.

‘*J wonder what he’s doing?” she said to

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