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He declared that he had been ignorant that Lord Walwyn was at the Hague, or he should have waited on him immediately after arriving there, 'since nothing, said the Marquis, 'does me good like the sight of an honest cavalier. I am sure Eustace might have said the same; and they sat talking together long and earnestly about how it fared with the King in Scotland, and how he had been made to take the Covenant, which, as they said, was in very truth a dissembling which must do him grievous ill, spiritually, however it might serve temporally.
'Yes, sir, the Vulgate a copy older than the Reformation, so not liable to be called an heretical version, said Berenger, to whom a copy had been given by Lady Walwyn, as more likely to be saved if his baggage were searched. 'The other is the Office and Psalter after our English rite; and this last is not mine, but Mr. Sidney's a copy of Virgilius Maro, which he had left behind at Paris.
'I scarce comprehend it, my Lord, was the gentle reply. 'I knew not that it was possible to dissolve the tie of wedlock. 'The Pope's decree will suffice, said Lord Walwyn. 'Yet, sir, still said the ex-nun, 'methought you had shown me that the Holly Father exceeded his power in the annulling of vows.
It was well, for, when Walwyn was repurchased, all our money had been sunk in it, and enough borrowed to consume the rents for some years to come, and thus we had to live very frugally in a little house in Westminster; but as for that, I was far happier marketing in the morning with my basket on my arm, cooking my husband's supper, making his shirts, and by and by nursing my babe, than ever I had been in all the stiff state and splendour of poor Margaret's fine salons.
He was then dismissed, with orders to take some rest, but he obstinately refused all commands in French or English to go to bed, and was found some time after fast asleep. Ye hae marred a bonnier face than your ain. One room at Hurst Walwyn, though large, wainscoted, and well furnished, bore as pertinaciously the air of a cell as the appearance of Sister Cecily St.
Adderley, in rather an inapropos fashion it must be owned; but then he had been fretted beyond endurance by his pupil striding up and down his room, reviling Diane, and describing Eustacie, while he was trying to write these uncomfortable tidings to Lord Walwyn. 'Lucy! What makes you bring her up to me? exclaimed Berenger. 'Little Dolly would be as much to the purpose!
Eustacie gladly retreated to housewifery at Combe Walwyn, but a strenuous endeavour on Lady Thistlewood's part to marry her stepson to a Dorset king's daughter, together with the tidings of the renewed war in France, spurred Philip into writing permission from his father to join the King of Navarre as a volunteer.
But soldiers had been quartered on both families; there had been a skirmish at Walwyn with Sir Ralph Hopton, much damage had been done to the house and grounds, and there was no means of repairing it; all the plate had been melted up, there was nothing to show for it but a little oval token, with the King's head on one side, and the Queen's on the other; and as to the chaplet of pearls
'I shall wait till he comes, said the Prince and Eustace gave SUCH a look of thankfulness, and pressed the hand that had been laid in his. The Duke, with politeness, asked permission of my mother to write a billet to his brother, with a report of Lord Walwyn, at the writing- table in the room.
Lord Walwyn repeated his agitated thanks and praises for such devotion to his grandson. Osbert bower, laid his hand on his heart, and replied 'Monseigneur is good, but what say I? Monsieur le Baron is my foster-brother! Say that, and all is said in one word.
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