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Updated: June 8, 2025
My surprise was greater when I heard her answer: 'He was going to carry off the Cardinal's nieces. 'He seems to have a turn for such exploits, Annora said. 'Who wanted to marry them? 'It was for no such thing! Cecile said, with as much heat as she could show; 'it was to take them as hostages. 'As hostages! 'Oh, yes! Do not you know? For the Prince. Our astonishment was redoubled.
It was merely hollowed out in the rock, and built up in front, with a low door and a very little window. "Who is it?" asked a soft voice from within. "Elaine and Annora," replied the little girl. "Come in, my children." Motioning Philippa to wait for her an instant, Elaine lifted the latch and entered, half closing the door behind her.
'Are you to go and get yourself unmarried? 'Unmarried! burst out the sisters Annora and Elizabeth. 'What, laughed Philip, 'you knew not that this is an ancient husband, married years before your father and mother? 'But, why? said Elizabeth, rather inclined to cry. 'What has poor Lucy done that you should get yourself unmarried from her?
I saw Madame van Hunker led out by a solid, wooden-faced old Dutchman, who looked more like her father than her husband; and I told Annora that I was sure she had worn the pearls only because he compelled her. 'Belike, said my sister. 'She hath no more will of her own than a hank of flax! That men can waste their hearts on such moppets as that!
I was certain that Annora knew, even better than I did, that the diversity between our parents had not been for the happiness of their children.
Mademoiselle entreated him, in her vehement way, either to mount his horse and go to help M. le Prince, or at least to go to bed and act the invalid for very shame; but he stood irresolute, whistling, and tapping on the window, too anxious to undress, and too timid to go out. Annora would have been ready to beat him. I think his daughter longed to do so. She tried frightening him.
Whereupon Annora fell into such a flood of tears at the cruelty of casting such things up to her, that Sir Marmaduke was fain in his blundering way to declare that he only meant that an honest Englishman had no chance where a Frenchman once came in, and then very nearly to surrender at discretion.
My father and brothers went half-way down the stairs to meet them, my mother advanced across the room, holding me in one hand and Annora in the other. We all curtsied low, and as the gentlemen advanced, bowing low, and almost sweeping the ground with the plumes in their hats, we each had to offer them a cheek to salute after the English fashion.
It was more like being shut up in a china closet than anything else, and it seemed as if the people were all dumb or dead, as we passed through those silent villages, while the great windmills along the banks kept waving their huge arms in silence, till Annora declared she felt she must presently scream, or ride a tilt with them like Don Quixote.
Her silken farthingales hung like serge robes, her ruffs looked like mufflers, her coifs like hoods, even necklaces seemed rosaries, and her scrupulous neatness enhanced the pure unearthly air of all belonging to her. Eager and lively, fair and handsome, sat the Baronne de Ribaumont, or rather, since the higher title had been laid aside, Dame Annora Thistlewood.
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