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So, too, did Custance the grocer tremble in executing champagne orders for the thin and wayworn old lady, and gave her full measure pressed down and running over in teas and sugars, to make up for the price which he was compelled to charge for such refinements in the way of wine.
"If so be, child, I were fain to dwell a season on middle earth." "In good sooth, so count I it," answered Maude, allowing her eyes to rove delightedly among all the marvels of the ante-chamber, "and the Lady Custance the very Queen of Faery." "The Lady Custance is made of flesh and blood, trust me.
"Maybe if I scale yet again the walls of Eltham Palace, where the King now abideth as I sought in vain to do this last Christmas." "Scale the walls! What to do, Ned?" "What thinkest, Custance?" "Ned! surely thou meanest not to take the King's life? caitiff though he be!" "Nay," said Edward slowly; "scantly that, Custance without I were forced thereto.
"No. Not that, please. It is bad enough to have lived it. It was pure misery and hopelessness. I prefer to talk of anything but that." They were still talking when Kathleen returned. She concealed the dismay and dread that she felt in finding Sylvia Custance with Desmond. She feared the old influence that had so vitally helped to ruin her brother's life and drive him from his Faith.
They promptly raised their charge for admission from sixpence to one shilling, with an additional sixpence for booking. They advertised the attraction in capital letters and created a furore. The consequence was that the learned and those who assumed the virtue combined to fill the hall to overflowing. Custance was an ideal lecturer.
"In his mercy!" murmured the prisoner significantly. "The which should be wist how much?" "Truly, to free thee hence, and thou shouldst go up to London to wait upon his Grace." "And then ?" Isabel knew what the King intended to exact, but the time was not yet come to say too much, lest Custance should be alarmed and draw back altogether. So she replied evasively
There have been riddles writ ere now; ay, and black treachery done by shaven crowns too. Canst thou crede that story? 'Tis more than I can." "Custance, I do ensure thee, the King's Grace sware into me his own self, by the holy Face of Lucca, and said, if thou didst cast any doubt of the same, my Lord Archbishop should lay to pledge his corporal oath thereon."
"And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?" demanded the little girl, laughing. "The twelve Peers of Charlemagne, such saved as were Princes, were not the like of you, Lady Custance," said Dame Agnes, almost severely. "I would so, Dame.
Silence, until Custance sank slowly on her knees, and buried her face upon the cushion of the settle. "God, help me; for I have none other help!" sobbed the agitated voice. A less impulsive and demonstrative woman would not have spoken her thoughts aloud. But Custance wore her heart upon her sleeve. What wonder if the daws pecked at it?
Custance!" cried Edward and Isabel in concert. "Let be, fair Cousins," answered the cool unmoved tones of the King. "We can make large allowance for our cousin's words they be but nature." This astute man knew how to overlook angry words. And certainly no words he could have used would have vexed Custance half so much as this assumption of calm superiority.
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