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"Ay, child," said the Dowager; "so do." But when Willemina came back, she looked very important. "Madam, 'tis a sumner from my Lord's Grace of Canterbury, that beareth letter for Sir Ademar. Counteth your Ladyship that he shall be made bishop or the like?" "With Harry of Bolingbroke in the throne, and Thomas de Arundel bearing the mitre?" responded the old lady with a laugh.
"God comfort her!" murmured the old lady, turning away. "For, ill as she should brook the loss of him, yet methinks, if I know her well, she might bear even that lighter than the witting that her name was made a name of scorn for ever." "Lady," said Ademar, quietly, "even God can only comfort them that lack comforting." She looked at him in silence.
"Maybe," replied Ademar, "because He saw that your Ladyship's disorder needed a bitter medicine." There was a respite for just one year. But ever after the news of her brother Richard's death, Constance drooped and pined; and when the fresh storm broke, it found her an invalid almost confined to her bed. It began with a strong manifesto from Archbishop Chichele against the Lollards.
Ademar pointed out of the window to two little children who were dancing merrily on the shore, and laughing till they could scarcely dance. "How would you comfort them, Madam?" "They need it not," she murmured, absently. "In verity," said Ademar; "neither wasteth our Lord His comfort on them that dance, nor His pitifulness on them that be at ease.
Ademar laid down his book in answer to the appealing glance from Maude's eyes. "Lady," he said, "how much, I pray you, is owing to your Grace from the young ladies your daughters, for food and lodging?" "Owing from my little maids!" exclaimed Constance. "That is it which I would know," replied Ademar gravely. "From my little maids!" she repeated in astonishment.
"Then, Sir Ademar, you do think He suffereth when He chastiseth us?" she asked, her voice faltering a little. "I cannot think, Dame, that He loveth the rod. Only He loveth too well the child to leave him uncorrected." "O, Sir Ademar!" she cried suddenly "I do trust He shall not find need to try me yet again through these childre! I am so feared I should fail and fall.
The chronicles of Wales, of Scotland, and of Man; the annals of Ademar and Marianus; the Sagas of Denmark and the Isles all record the event. In "the Orcades" of Thormodus Torfaeus, a wail over the defeat of the Islesmen is heard, which they call "Orkney's woe and Randver's bane." The Norse settlers in Caithness saw terrific visions of Valhalla "the day after the battle."
"Sir Ademar, this is dread!" exclaimed the old lady in trembling accents. "What can my Lord's Grace have against you? This this toucheth right nearly the Lady, our daughter Christ aid her of His mercy!" "Maybe, Madam, it were so intended," said Ademar shrewdly. "For me, truly I wis little what my Lord hath against me saving that I see not in all matters by his most reverend eyes.
Maude spent it in learning to read, for which she had always had a strong wish, and now coaxed Father Ademar to teach her. The confessor was a Lollard, and was therefore not deterred by any fear of her becoming acquainted with forbidden books. He willingly complied with Maude's wish.
It was a solemn writ of excommunication against Ademar de Milford, clerk in orders, and it was dated on the Sunday which had intervened between the marriage of Maude and that of Constance. All official acts of Ademar since that day were invalidated. Maude's marriage, therefore, was not affected, but Constance was no longer Countess of Kent.
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