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1 " There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. "
― Edgar Allan Poe , The Man of the Crowd
2 " Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, " It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City." As Margaret listened, the embittered grey eyes had softened, misted with sudden tears. " My brother may lie in an untended grave," she said, " but he does not lack for an epitaph. "
