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The said espousals so had and solemnised betwixt the said Edmund and Luce continued withouten any interruption of the said Custance, or any oyer during the life of the said Edmund."
"Forsooth, Master Lyngern, methinks I wis what you mean by women hard as stones," observed Maude with a slight shudder. "They do give me alway the horrors." "Think you there is naught of the stone in the Lady Custance?" said Hugh in a low voice. Maude energetically repudiated the imputation. "She a stone? nay! she is a butterfly," said Bertram.
How long Alvena might have proceeded to shock Maude's susceptibilities and outrage her preconceived opinions, it is impossible to say; for at this moment Thurstan opened the door and announced in a rather consequential manner "The Lord Le Despenser, to visit the Lady Custance, and Dame Margaret his sister."
"Custance!" remonstrated her cousin in a scandalised tone. But Constance lifted her head, and flung up her hands towards heaven. "O God of Paradise!" she cried, "holy and true, just in Thy judgments, look upon us two this King and me and betwixt us judge this day! Look upon us, Lady of Pity, Lily of Christendom, and say whether of us two is the sinner!
"Nay, then, we be again at a point. I can but give mine avisement unto thee to come thither and see." The point was sturdily fought over on both sides. Isabel dared promise nothing more than that Custance should be allowed to see her children, and that she herself would do her utmost to obtain further concessions.
"What manner of talk held his conscience with him, sithence, mewondereth?" suggested Custance, in a low, troubled voice. "But maybe, like thee, he accounteth if but priest's gear." "Marry, 'tis far lighter travail. I list not to carry mine own sins: I had the liefer by the worth of the Queen's Highness' gems they were on the priest's back."
"His corporal oath ensure me! nay, nor an' he sware by Saint Beelzebub!" cried Custance in bitter scorn. "I have heard of a corporal oath ere now, child. How many days were, ere it was broken to shivers? I tell thee, Nib, Harry of Bolingbroke may swear an' it like him by every saint in the calendar from Aaron to Zachary; and when he is through, my faith in his oaths will go by the eye of a needle.
"My name is Alianora Touchet, Lady de Audley; and I am the only daughter and heir of Sir Edmund de Holand, sometime Earl of Kent, and of Custance his wife, daughter unto Sir Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. I claim the lands and coronets of this my father the earldom of Kent, and the barony of Wake de Lydel." Her evidences are received and examined.
"Not if I die here a thousand times!" "I do thee to wit, Custance, that there is grave doubt cast of thy truth and fealty " "To Harry of Bolingbroke?" she asked contemptuously. "When lent I him any?" "Custance! Of thy truth and fealty unto holy Church our mother. Nor, maybe, shall she be over ready to lift up out of the mire one whom all the holy doctors do esteem an heretic." "What, I?" "Thou."
At present he was weak in body, and like an infant in religion. The slightest obstacle might turn him again to his former state of doubt. At this critical stage Sylvia Custance was a great danger. But it flashed into her mind that Desmond must fight his own fight unaided. If he succumbed again it was not her fault. She could only pray for him.
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