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But, certainly, Sibyll's cause was not wholly lost, though greatly shaken and endangered, when Lord Hastings alighted at Lady Bonville's gate; but his face gradually grew paler, his mien less assured, as he drew nearer and nearer to the apartment and the presence of the widowed Katherine. She was seated alone, and in the same room in which he had last seen her.
If the war-trump blew, his very vassals would laugh at a Bonville's banner, and beneath the flag of poor William Hastings would gladly march the best chivalry of the land. And this it is, I say, that galls her. For evermore she is driven to compare the state she holds as the dame of the accepted Bonville with that she lost as the wife of the disdained Hastings."
Thou hast heard that in youth he wooed Katherine Nevile, that we loved, and were severed. They who see us now marvel whether we hate or love, no, not love that question were an insult to Lord Bonville's wife! Ofttimes we seem pitiless to each other, why? Lord Hastings would have wooed me, an English matron, to forget mine honour and my House's. He chafes that he moves me not.
"And they fought? Brave Hastings!" "No. For whether the Duke of York forbade it, or whether the Lady Katherine would not hear of such strife between fere and frere, I know not; but Duke Richard sent Hastings to Ireland, and, a month after, the Lady Katherine married Lord Bonville's son and heir, so, at least, tell the gossips and sing the ballad-mongers.
If the war-trump blew, his very vassals would laugh at a Bonville's banner, and beneath the flag of poor William Hastings would gladly march the best chivalry of the land. And this it is, I say, that galls her. For evermore she is driven to compare the state she holds as the dame of the accepted Bonville with that she lost as the wife of the disdained Hastings."
Thou hast heard that in youth he wooed Katherine Nevile, that we loved, and were severed. They who see us now marvel whether we hate or love, no, not love that question were an insult to Lord Bonville's wife! Ofttimes we seem pitiless to each other, why? Lord Hastings would have wooed me, an English matron, to forget mine honour and my House's. He chafes that he moves me not.
"And they fought? Brave Hastings!" "No. For whether the Duke of York forbade it, or whether the Lady Katherine would not hear of such strife between fere and frere, I know not; but Duke Richard sent Hastings to Ireland, and, a month after, the Lady Katherine married Lord Bonville's son and heir, so, at least, tell the gossips and sing the ballad-mongers.
But, certainly, Sibyll's cause was not wholly lost, though greatly shaken and endangered, when Lord Hastings alighted at Lady Bonville's gate; but his face gradually grew paler, his mien less assured, as he drew nearer and nearer to the apartment and the presence of the widowed Katherine. She was seated alone, and in the same room in which he had last seen her.
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