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You are a young man, in excellent health; you have the wife you want; you understand good tobacco; you have a son. That is a great deal but my God! think what else you've got. You're the Duke of Glastonbury one of the oldest titles in England. You're one of the richest men in the country the richest in the old peerage, at any rate, I'm told. And YOU'RE not happy!" The other smiled.
A glass vessel, supported by a foot, was shown to the people as the cup in which Christ gave the wine to His disciples at the Last Supper; and they were taught, not only that Joseph of Arimathea had caught the blood from His side in the same vessel, but that he and Mary Magdalene, sailing on Joseph's shirt, had brought over the relic from Palestine to Glastonbury.
He took up the pencil and touched her drawing. 'Do you know, dear Glastonbury, resumed Sir Ratcliffe, 'I had little hope in our late visitation. I cannot say I had prepared myself for the worst, but I anticipated it. We have had so much unhappiness in our family, that I could not persuade myself that the cup was not going to be dashed from our lips. 'God is merciful, said Glastonbury.
In the coming week, after I had thus taken leave of Owen, my friend Herewald, the ealdorman, would have a hunting party before we all left him and Glastonbury for Winchester, and so it came to pass that on the appointed day a dozen of us rode with a train of men and hounds after us along the westward slopes of the Mendips in the direction of Cheddar, rousing the red deer from the warm woodlands of the combes where they love to hide.
Local tradition has it that the clock with its accompanying figures was part of the spoil removed from Glastonbury Abbey. The ecclesiastical authorities at Wells assert in contradiction to this that the clock was the work of one Peter Lightfoot, and was placed in the cathedral in the latter part of the fourteenth century.
"It troubles me very much, Glastonbury to go abroad and leave him looking like that. Is it her fault? Or what do you think?" "'Pon my soul, I can't say even the Crow could not unravel the mystery. Laura Highford was at Montfitchet confound her would come; can she have had anything to do with it, I wonder?"
Glastonbury entered, followed by the duke and his son. Henrietta was sitting in an easy chair, one of Lord Montfort's sisters, seated on an ottoman at her side, held her hand. Henrietta's eye met Glastonbury's; she bowed to him. 'How your hand trembles, Henrietta! said the young lady. Glastonbury approached her with a hesitating step. He blushed faintly, he looked exceedingly perplexed.
Glastonbury, and here Sir Ratcliffe became more animated, 'you could not permit it, my honour is safe in your hands? Sir Ratcliffe paused for a reply. 'On that score my conscience is clear, replied Glastonbury. 'It is, then, it must be then as I suspect, rejoined Sir Ratcliffe. 'I am your debtor for this great service.
Thus things were with us at the end of the tenth year after we left Aldhelm at Malmesbury, and now the court was at Glastonbury in fair Somerset, keeping the Christmastide there in the place that is the holiest in all England by reason of the coming thither of Joseph of Arimathea, and the first preaching of the Gospel in our land by him.
It was, properly considered, but a very secondary example of their strange and violent simplicity that one of them, before a mighty mob at Whitehall, cut off the anointed head of the sacramental man of the Middle Ages. For another, far away in the western shires, cut down the thorn of Glastonbury, from which had grown the whole story of Britain.
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