Crossword-Solution: AYLMER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Aylmer, with his eye set greedily on a possible bishopric, and “the better to obtain the favour of the new Queen,” {345b} sharpens his pen to confound Knox by logic.

One day, very soon after their marriage, Aylmer sat gazing at his wife with a trouble in his countenance that grew stronger until he spoke.

But if any shifting motion caused her to turn pale there was the mark again, a crimson stain upon the snow, in what Aylmer sometimes deemed an almost fearful distinctness.

After his marriage,—for he thought little or nothing of the matter before,—Aylmer discovered that this was the case with himself.

With the morning twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife’s face and recognized the symbol of imperfection; and when they sat together at the evening hearth his eyes wandered stealthily to her cheek, and beheld, flickering with the blaze of the wood fire, the spectral hand that wrote mortality where he would fain have worshipped.