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I have made no complaints on that head, even within my own breast." "I know what your thoughts are, Plantagenet." "Believe me that you wrong my thoughts. Of course I have been anxious, and have, perhaps, shown my anxiety by the struggle I have made to hide it. I have never told you what is false, Glencora." "No; you are not false!"
"Can this be Edith Plantagenet?" said the King bitterly "Edith Plantagenet, the wise and the noble? Or is it some lovesick woman who cares not for her own fame in comparison of the life of her paramour? Now, by King Henry's soul! little hinders but I order thy minion's skull to be brought from the gibbet, and fixed as a perpetual ornament by the crucifix in thy cell!"
Pamela's casual remark about her brother perhaps being at Stratford had filled her for the moment with wild joy, but hearts after leaps ache, and she had quickly reminded herself that Richard Plantagenet had most evidently accepted the refusal as final and would never be anything more to her than Pamela's brother.
Then Lady Annabel gave Plantagenet a writing-case, and Venetia filled it with pens and paper, that he might never want means to communicate with them; and her evenings were passed in working him a purse, which Lady Annabel took care should be well stocked.
Plantagenet, said Venetia, who was seated by him, and who spoke in a whisper, 'it was not 'Hush! said Cadurcis, in a low voice. 'Well, that was a strange dream, said Mrs. Cadurcis; 'was it not, Doctor? 'Now, children, I will tell you a very curious story, said the Doctor; 'and it is quite a true one, for it happened to myself.
I shall spare nothing to please her, if possible, and am not wholly without hope, though I have a powerful rival; no less a person than the eldest son and heir of Sir Plantagenet Mowbray, Bart. But her virtue will never, I am persuaded, suffer her to listen to such addresses as his.
"I understood that Lord Plantagenet was to be a civil engineer," said Lady Corisande. "And Lord Albert Victor to have a sheep-walk in Australia," continued Lady St. Jerome. "They say that a lord must not go to the bar," said Miss Arundel. "It seems to me very unjust." "Alfred Beaufort went the circuit," said Lady Corisande, "but I believe they drove him into Parliament."
It was true that a monastery was a sanctuary, but if all that was reported of Edward Plantagenet were true, he might, if he tracked Copeland to the Abbey, insist on his being yielded up, or might make Abbot and monks suffer severely for the protection given to his enemy; and there was much fear that the Dacres might be on the scent.
The countess was married after her brother's death to a Sir Richard Pole, a supporter and relation of the king; and when left a widow she received from Henry VIII. the respectful honour which was due to the most nobly born of his subjects, the only remaining Plantagenet of unblemished descent.
Is it indeed the Peggy Pickle of the Past? and my host will say, `My good sir, that is the world-famous authoress, Mariquita de Ponsonby Plantagenet Saville! Stevenson, I assure you, is not in it for flow of language, and she is so proud of herself that she won't speak to anyone under a belted earl." "That sounds nice!" said Peggy approvingly.
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