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"Then I beg that you and Beatrice will continue here, so long ha, chetife! so long as my child lives." Father Bruno gravely assented. He knew too well that would not be long. Yet it proved longer than either of them anticipated. Stormy times were at hand.
"`Oh that mine head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" "Ha, chetife! what is the matter?" "Lady, there has been an awful slaughter of my people." And she stood up and flung up her hands towards heaven, in a manner which seemed to the Countess worthy of some classic prophetess.
Soothly, to increase objects for love is to increase sorrow. If thou have no childre, they'll never be torn from thee, nor they will never break thine heart by ill behaving. And most folks behave ill in this world. Ha, chetife! 'tis a weary, dreary place, this world, as ever a poor woman was in. Hast thou a good man to thy baron, child?" "He might be worser," said Lady Basset, icily.
This summary way of doing things was almost unheard of in the fourteenth century; and Godfrey entertained a private opinion that "crack-brained" was a truthful epithet. "Needs must," said he; "wherefore I pray your Lordship mercy. Her Ladyship shall scantly make good road to Hazelwood without I go withal. But ha, chetife!"
"Ha, chetife! if here is not my Lady Countess Jew come again! What would it please her sweetest Grace to take?" But Levina had forgotten, as older people sometimes do, that Margaret was no longer a child to be kept in silent subjection. Girls of fifteen and she was nearly that now were virtually women in the thirteenth century.
Nor did Friar Matthew Paris know much better, since he refers to it all as "that passage in the Gospels." King Henry was given to allusions of this class, to the revered memory of his excellent father. "Oh, delightful!" The modern schoolboy's "How jolly" is really a corruption of this. The companion regret was "Ha, chetife!" The wimple covered the neck, and was worn chiefly out of doors.
The third article, according to Levina, was cheese: but the first mouthful was enough to convince the persecuted Jewess that soft soap would have been a more correct epithet. She quietly let it alone. "Ha, chetife! I am sadly in fear that my sweetest damsel does not like our Suffolk cheese?" said Levina in a most doleful tone.
"But suppose he should be angry?" "Pure foy! He is never angry with me. Oh, thou dost not understand, my dear Madge, at present. Men always want managing. When thou hast been wed a year, thou wilt know more about it." "But can all women manage men?" asked Marjory in an amused tone. "Ha, chetife! No, indeed. And there are some men who can't be managed, worse luck!
"Ha, chetife! 'Tis easier work honouring a fair damsel, with golden hair and rose-leaf cheek, than a toothless old harridan that is for ever plaguing thee." "Belike the Lord knew that, and writ therefore His fifth command." Godfrey did not answer, for his attention was diverted.
Matthew Foljambe ran off, returning in a moment with a roll of blue silk braid, wherewith the letter was tied up. Then wax was needed. "Ha, chetife!" said Father Jordan. "The saints forgive me my sins! Never a bit of wax had I lacked for many a month, and I gave the last to Richard, butler." "Hath he used it all?" asked Matthew. "Be sure he so did.
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