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-- is my marriage with Lord Shoreby . '' `` Is it decided , then ? '' asked the lad . `` To-morrow , before noon , Dick , in the abbey church , '' she answered , `` John Matcham and Joanna Sedley both shall come to a right miserable end . There is no help in tears , or I could weep mine eyes out . I have not spared myself to pray , but Heaven frowns on my petition . And , dear Dick -- good Dick -- but that ye can get me forth of this house before the morning , we must even kiss and say good-bye . ''