" "While your Majesty is in this gracious mood," said De Gondomar, bending lowly, "suffer me to prefer a request respecting a person of very inferior consequence to Sir Jocelynbut one in whom I nevertheless take an interestand who is likewise a prisoner in the Fleet.

Now it had left her spine and settled in a soul that scorned the low and loved the lowly.

Their sphere of labor and acquaintance has been entirely among those whom they would term the lowly, but who might also be called the credulous and vulgar.