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Through the most unfrequented bridle-paths they crept slowly on, till first Windsor, and then Eton, was left behind. They were about two miles beyond Eton, when a hand was suddenly laid on Constance's bridle, and the summons to "Stand and deliver!" jestingly uttered in a familiar and most welcome voice. "Ha, Dickon! right glad am I to hear thee!" cried his sister. "Is all well, Custance?"
"He is marvellous taken with beauty," resumed his priestly counsellor. "And the Lady Custance is not the sole woman in the world." "You have some further thought, Father," urged Henry. "Methinks your Grace hath a good friend in the Lord Galeas, Duke of Milan?" "Ay, of olden time," answered the King, with a sigh.
"Why, then thou mayest match thy grandchildre yet better," answered Isabel, laughing. "And after all, Isabel," returned Custance, in a manner much graver than was usual with her, "there abideth yet one further then death, and God's judgment." "Holy Mary aid us! avaunt with such thoughts!" "Canst thou avaunt with such thoughts, child?" said Custance, with a heavy sigh.
"Marry, get thee hence 'tis the sole mercy thou canst do me." "So will I; but, Custance, I ensure thee, I am bidden to abide hither the setting of thine hand to that paper." "Then haste and bid measure be taken for a coffin, for one shall lack either for thee or me ere thou depart!" "Alack, alack!" But Isabel rose and withdrew, signing to her companion to follow.
"Only this, Custance," replied her cousin in a deprecating tone, "that sithence, though it were not good by law of holy Church, yet there was some matter of marriage betwixt thee and my Lord of Kent; and men's tongues, thou wist, will roll and rumble unseemlily, it seemed good unto his Highness that it should be fully exhibit to the world how little true import were therein; and accordingly he would have thee to put thine hand to a paper, wherein thou shalt knowledge that the marriage had betwixt you two was against the law of holy Church, and is therefore null and void.
Maude would never have suspected the Dowager of the least respect for poetry; and she was surprised to watch her sit by the open casement, dreamily looking out on the landscape, while she read to her of the "white ycrowned Queen" of the Daisy, or of the providential interpositions by which "Crist unwemmed kept Custance," or oftener yet "But what visage had she thereto?
Denis watched the boy as he strode away towards his home, his figure stiffly borne, the picture of indignant protest. For his own part, Denis desired no further acquaintance with Sylvia Custance. He despised her so much that the very thought of her was repulsive to his nature. After that one visit he preferred to cultivate old Jackson in his office in the city.
The Judge, with one pair of spectacles on his forehead and another on his eyes, immediately cried aloud to his marshal, "Custance, the jockey, as I'm alive!" and then the Baron bowed most politely to the man in the crowd, the most famous jockey of his day.
If Dickon wanted Anne Mortimer or anything else, in his sister's eyes, he must have it. To refuse to help Ned was one thing, but to refuse to help Dickon was quite another. "But how should we win in?" Edward drew a silver key from his pocket. "I gat this made of a smith, Custance, a year gone.
Two months after her arrival at Westminster, Custance received a grant of all her late husband's goods forfeited to the Crown; and five days later was the marriage of Edmund of Kent and Lucia of Milan. They were married in the Church of Saint Mary Overy, Southwark, the King himself giving the bride.
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