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And when Mericour still demurred with reluctance to become a burden on the bounty of the noble house, he was reminded gracefully of the debt of gratitude that the family owed to him for the relief he had brought to Berenger; and, moreover, Dame Annora giggled out that, 'if he would teach Nan and Bess to speak and read French and Italian, it would be worth something to them. The others of the family would have hushed up this uncalled-for proposal; but Mericour caught at it as the most congenial mode of returning the obligation.
"The shadow is nearly straight, Father Guy. Will she be much longer, do you think?" Guy started suddenly when Annora spoke. "There is something amiss," he replied, in a tone of apprehension. "I never knew her so long before. Has she heard my news already?" He looked in again. The grey veiled figure had not changed its position. After a moment's irresolution, Guy laid his hand upon the latch.
The monk sat down on a piece of rock outside the cell, and soon so completely lost himself in thought that Annora grew weary of her amusement before he spoke again. She did not, however, leave him; but when she had thrown away her flowers, and had spent some minutes in a vain search for a four-leaved clover, fairly tired out, she came and stood before him.
Moreover, Annora was hovering over me, looking perfectly innocent, and intent on making me rest, and feeding me upon possets, and burning to hear my story. Then came my mother from St. Germain, having received a courier who had been dispatched at dawn. She embraced me and wept over me, and yet and yet I think there mingled with her feeling something of vexation and annoyance.
She would have begun by forbidding Annora to go, attended only by the servants, to prayers at the England ambassador's: but Eustace had foreseen this, and made arrangements with a good old knight and his lady, Sir Francis Ommaney, always to call for my sister on their way to church, and she was always ready for them.
Annora, who had known her as a grave, sweet, thoughtful child, grieved much for her, broken-hearted as she seemed to have been for her father; and the Princess of Orange, knowing that Nan had seen the poor young lady more lately than herself, sent for her to converse and tell of the pretty childish ways of that 'rosebud born in snow, as an English poet prettily termed the young captive.
Come, my god- daughter, you at least have learnt the art of commanding your looks. Poor Annora must have had a sad time of it with my mother when we were gone. She was a good girl, but she had grown up in rough times, and had a proud independent nature that chafed and checked at trifles, and could not brood being treated like a hairdresser's block, even by Queens or Princesses.
Sir Francis hurried out to learn the truth, and then my mother in her fright cried out: 'Will no one come and protect us? Oh! where is M. Darpent? while Annora called to me to take our cloaks and come up to the roof of the house to see what was going on.
It only remains to be added, that the fictitious characters of the tale are Giles de Edingdon and Guy of Ashridge, the nurse Alina, Agnes the lavender, the nuns Laura and Senicula, and the woodcutter's children Elaine and Annora.
"Ten is one thing, and threescore and ten is another. If I could turn back and go no further! Is the child here again already?" "Father Guy," said Annora, running up and throwing herself down on the primrose bank, "I have been to the cell, but I have not given your message." "Is the Lady not there?" asked Guy, a sudden feeling of relief coming over him.
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