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In some perturbation lest the man might be calling her bird away, Dennet descended the steps. She was about to utter a sharp rebuke, but Giles held out his hand imploringly, and she paused a moment to hear the sweet full note of the "ouzel cock, with orange tawny bill," closely imitated on a tiny bone whistle.
She lavished counsel on her hostess, found fault with the maidens, criticised the cookery, walked into the kitchen and still- room with assistance and directions, and even made a strong effort to possess herself of the keys. It must be confessed that Dennet was saucy! It was her weapon of self-defence, and she considered herself insulted in her own house.
When Giles wished them a moody farewell, and wished he were going with them, Stephen returned, "Ah! you don't know when you are well off." Little Dennet came running down after them with two pinks in her hands. "Here's a sop-in-wine for a token for each of you young gentlemen," she cried, "for you came to help father, and I would you were going to stay and wed me instead of Giles."
Your mother is tabled at a religious house at Salisbury." "I know. I landed at Southampton and have seen her." "And Dennet," Stephen added with a short laugh, "she could not wait for you." "No, verily. Did I not wot well that she cared not a fico for me? I hoped when I made off that thou wouldst be the winner, Steve, and I am right glad thou art, man."
He was glad that Dennet took one hand, and Giles the other, declaring that he must be led to the grandmother instantly. He muttered something about being in too foul trim to go near her, but Dennet held him fast, and he was too dizzy to make much resistance.
"Then you lost The view of earthly glory: men might say Till this time pomp was single; but now married To one above itself." If Giles Headley murmured at Aldonza's removal, it was only to Perronel, and that discreet woman kept it to herself. In the summer of 1519 he was out of his apprenticeship, and though Dennet was only fifteen, it was not uncommon for brides to be even younger.
"Yea, and how is it with Master Randall?" asked Dennet. "Be he gone with my Lord Cardinal?" "He is made over to the King," said Ambrose briefly. "'Tis that which I must tell his wife." "Have with thee, then," said Stephen, linking his arm into that of his brother, for to be together was still as great an enjoyment to them as in Forest days.
Well, we need not be beholden to him. Ha, Dennet, my maid!" Dennet screwed up her little mouth, and looked very demure, but she twinkled her bright eyes, and said, "My heart will not break, sir; I am in no haste to be wed."
Ambrose only stayed for Dennet to divide the spoil, and though the blackberries had all been lost or crushed, the little maiden kept her promise generously, and filled the bag not only with nuts but with three red-checked apples, and a handful of comfits, for the poor little maid who never tasted fruit or sweets. "Up then spoke the apprentices tall Living in London, one and all." Old Ballad.
Giles, who looked on Dennet as a kind of needful appendage to the Dragon, a piece of property of his own, about whom he need take no trouble, merely laughed and said, "Want must be thy master then." But Ambrose treated her petulance in another fashion. "Look here, pretty mistress," said he, "there dwells by me a poor little maid nigh about thine age, who never goeth further out than to St.
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