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Was the Divine mercy no greater, which called that little child, unspotted by the world, to tread the fair streets of the Golden City, than the mercy thou wouldst have had instead of it? "It was not long after that," said Avice, slowly drawing out the white threads, "that our little Lady's health began to fail. The heats of summer tried her sorely. She drooped like a flower that had no water.
"There at least," thought poor Grisell, "there would be none to sting me to the heart with those jeering eyes of theirs. And I might feel in time that God and His Saints loved me, and not long for my father and mother, and oh! my poor little brother yes, and Leonard Copeland, and Sister Avice, and the rest. But would Sister Avice call this devotion?
Then Jocelyn opened proceedings, overhauling the robes and extending them one by one. As the steam went up he fell into a reverie. He again became conscious of the change which had been initiated during the walk. The Well-Beloved was moving house had gone over to the wearer of this attire. In the course of ten minutes he adored her. And how about little Avice Caro?
"Be there two Avices in the Priory at Aldgate? crying your Ladyship mercy." "Nay, but one," said Isabel. "Wherefore, Dame?" "But this is not my Avice!" faltered Maude. "I am Saint Clare's Avice, and none other," said the nun stonily. "But Avice de Narbonne?" "Avice de Narbonne I was; and thou wert Maude Gerard." "Christ's mercy on thee!" "What signifiest?" responded Avice, sternly.
"Hast thou heard, Bertha," said Avice, "that when I was young, I dwelt for a season in the Castle of Windsor, and my mother was nurse to some of the children of the Lord King that then was? Brothers and sister they were of our Lord King Edward that reigns now." Bertha's eyes brightened. She liked, as all girls do, to hear a story which had to do with great people.
Avice could see for herself that there must have been two or three servants in the flat during his former residence there: but his reasons for doing without them seemed never to strike her. His intention had been to keep her occupied exclusively at the studio, but accident had modified this.
"I don't doubt it," said Mrs. Rainham, bitterly. "Of course, anyone brought up in Paris is too grand to trouble about English but we think a good deal of these things in London." A little smile hovered on her thin lips, as Cecilia flushed, and Avice and her brother grinned broadly.
"Could you spare a chap a seat, think ye?" said he. "I've come for a bit o' peace. We've got thunder and lightning and rain up at smithy. She's thunder, and Ankaret's lightning, and Mildred's rain, for she's a-crying: and El'nor and me, we 're wet to skin wi' 't. So I put my cap on and come here to dry me a bit." Avice laughed. "You're always welcome, Uncle Dan, and I hope you know it," said she.
"Any news to-night, Hildith?" asked Avice, as she handed her neighbour the tinder-box. "Well, nay; without you call it news that sheriffs man brought word this morrow that the Lord King had granted the half of her goods to old Barnaba o' the Lichgate." "She that was a Jew, and was baptised at Whitsuntide? I am glad to hear that." "Ay, she.
As to my namesake, I am sorry to say that I perceive the appropriateness of Charley; but I suppose it is style, for the masculine dress which in Pica and Avice has an air of being worn for mere convenience' sake, and is quite ladylike, especially on Avice, has in her an appearance of defiance and coquetry.
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