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Master Russell, the Queen's clerk, and keeper of the royal children, used often to have a sprig of mint or thyme in his lips as he went about; her sign for him was a bit of stick or thread between her lips. For the priest, she tolled a bell. The Lady Alianora flourished her hands when she spoke; that was the sign for her.
"That is too poor for you, Alesia," said the Lady Alianora. "'Tis but thin, in good sooth," observed that young lady. "I suppose Philippa must have a gown for the wedding," resumed the Countess, carelessly. "It will do for her." It was cloth of silver. Philippa had never had such a dress in her life. She listened in mute surprise.
"This is a saying," Alianora here declares, "well worthy of Raymond Bérenger: and I have often wondered at your striking way of putting things." "That, too, is a gift," the King-Count said, with proper modesty, "which to some persons is given, and to others not: so I deserve no credit for it. But a husband is another pair of sandals.
Alianora, Countess of March, sister of Kent, and mother of the Mortimers, had died at Powys Castle. When Custance reached the chamber allotted to her at Westminster, she found there all the personal property which she had left at Langley twelve months earlier. "Maude!" she said that night, as she laid her head on the pillow. "Lady?" was the response.
Now the tale tells how, to humor Alianora, Count Manuel applied himself to the magic of the Apsarasas.
Maude's tone was just a little stiff. "The Lady Alianora de Holand, Madam." "Ah! our fair cousin her babe? Poor heart!" Maude was silent. "Verily, had I wist the pain it should take us to come hither," pursued Isabel, apparently quite careless about interrupting the spiritual labours of her sister nun, "methinks I had prayed my Lord the King to choose another messenger.
It is probable, though no certainty has yet been found, that Mary L'Estrange was also a daughter of Sir Edmund, since dates conclusively show that she cannot have been the daughter of Alianora of Lancaster. She died August 29, 1396, leaving an only child, Ankaretta Talbot.
The Princess said, "I do not know anything about this Niafer, who was probably no better than she should have been, nor do I know of any conceivable reason for your being miserable." "Why, is it not the truth," asks Manuel of Alianora, speaking not very steadily, "that you are to marry the man who restores the feather of which you were robbed at the pool of Haranton? and can marry none other?"
There was only one person at Cardiff who did not mourn bitterly for its young Lord. To his sister Isabel, the inheritance to which she now became sole heiress the change of her title from "Lady Isabel de Beauchamp" to "The Lady Le Despenser" were amply sufficient compensation to outweigh the loss of a brother. But little Alianora wept bitterly.
Anyhow, blasphemous or not, that is my need, and I must follow after my own thinking and my own desire." "If that desire were satisfied," asks Alianora, rather queerly, "would you be content to settle down to some such rational method of living as becomes a reputable sorcerer and king?"
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