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The mahout and the coolie were already cleaning the deer and, without troubling to cut it up, bound its legs together with udal fibre and tied it to the pad of their elephant; and the party moved on again. Half a mile further on the silence of the forest was broken by the loud crowing of a cock, taken up and answered defiantly by others.
Thus, when going to fetch Katharine to her interview with Privy Seal he had found Udal bursting with news of the Cleves embassy and with the letters of the Duke of Cleves actually copied on papers in his poke, Throckmorton had very swiftly advised with himself how to act.
The judges would not allow the jury to determine any thing but the fact, whether Udal had written the book or not, without examining his intention, or the import of the words.
'Most Reverend, she said, 'there is no end to the inventions of Magister Udal. 'There is none to the machinations of the fiend, and Udal is of his councils, he said. 'Be careful, I tell you, for your soul's sake. Cromwell shall come to you offering you great bribes. Have a care I say!
The young man swelled his scarlet breast still more consequentially. 'This is no house of thine, uncle, but my grandfar's. 'Young ass's colt! the printer fulminated. 'Would'st have thy sister undone by this Latin mouth-mincer? Udal grinned at him, and licked his lips. The printer snarled: 'Know'st thou not, young ass, that this man was thrown out of his mastership at Eton for his foul living?
The porter sniffed and slammed to the grating in the wicket. Being of the Old Faith he hated those Lutherans or those men of the New Learning that it pleased his master to employ. Udal hesitated before the closed door; he hesitated in the lane beyond the corner of the house. Perhaps there would be no barges at the steps no King's barges.
'Sir, he said at last, 'I see before us nothing but that ye make to divorce the Queen Anne. And the words seemed to come from him as if they cost him his heart's blood. Cromwell paused before him, his hands behind his back, his feet apart. 'The weighty question, he said, 'is this: Who hath betrayed me: of Udal; of the alewife that he should have had the papers of; or Throckmorton?
'And with this King here of France, Udal continued, whilst he too crossed himself with graceful waves of his brown hand. He continued to report that the way in which the Lady Mary sent her letters abroad had never been found; that Cromwell had appointed three tutors in succession to be aid to the Lady Mary in her studies.
With its slow, regularly interrupted gait, dominated by the impassive yellow face of Norfolk, the whole band had an air of performing a solemn dance, and Udal shivered for a long time, till amidst the train of mules bearing leathern sacks, cupboards, chests and commodes, he saw come riding a familiar figure in a scholar's gown the young pedagogue and companion of the Earl of Surrey.
She smiled at him as at a child. 'You are come to be of my advice, she said. Udal gazed at her with a wondering patronage. 'Why, what a wench it is, he said, and he crooked his arm around her ample waist. His face shone with pleasure.
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