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Her lot was fixed, and she must do her duty therein as the good wife and lady of the castle, the noble English matron; and as she looked half disposed to pout, Esclairmonde drew such a picture of the beneficent influence of the good baronial dame, ruling her castle, bringing up her children and the daughters of her vassals in good and pious nurture, making 'the heart of her husband safely trust in her, benefiting the poor, and fostering holy men, wayfarers, and pilgrims, that the girl's eyes filled within tears as she looked up and said, 'Ah! lady, this is the life fitted for thee, who can paint it so well.
Such devotion as led Esclairmonde to the pure atmosphere of prayer and self-sacrifice had well- nigh died out, and almost every other lady of the time would have regarded her release from the vows made for her its her babyhood a happy escape.
It was to Sister Clare that Alice turned for comfort when her brave old father died at the siege of Orleans; and it was while daily soothing and ministering to her sorrow that Esclairmonde heard the strange wild tales of the terrible witch maiden who had appeared on behalf of the French, and turned whole English armies to flight, by power that the French declared to come from the saints, but which the English never doubted to be infernal.
If so, I shall deem my little Alice grown a woman indeed, as it is time she were Diccon Nevil is bent on the wedding before we go to the wars again. Alice coloured like a damask rose, and hid her face behind her friend. 'Hast seen him, sweet? asked Esclairmonde, when Salisbury had been called away. 'Is he here?
There was a power of repression about Esclairmonde that annihilated all his designs, and drove him back into his bashful self whenever he came into contact with her, and felt how unlike the grave serene loftiness of her presence was to the mere queen of romance, that in her absence her shadow had become. Alice Montagu, returning to her side, relieved while disconcerting him.
'I would we were as sure of justice at my home, sighed Esclairmonde. 'King Henry will bring about a better rule. 'Never doubt, cried Salisbury's daughter. 'When France is once subdued, there will be no more trouble, he will make your kinsmen do you right, dear demoiselle, and oh! will you not found a beauteous convent? 'King Henry has not conquered France yet, was all Esclairmonde said.
Esclairmonde could only hurry away at this; while Alice, grasping her hand, continued: 'Oh, have they been persecuting you? I dreaded it when I saw yon little wretch; but oh, Esclairmonde, what is this? in an utterly changed voice. 'He holds my faith in trust. He will restore it, said Esclairmonde, hurriedly.
Faithful, great-hearted Bedford, striving to uphold a losing cause, to reconcile selfish contentions, to retain conquests that, though unjustly made, he had no power to relinquish; and all without one trustworthy relation, with friends and fellow-warriors dying, disputing, betraying, or deserting, his was as self-devoted and as mournful a career as ever was run by any prince at any age of the world; and while he slept in his grave at Rouen, that grave which even Louis XI. respected, Esclairmonde, as, like a true bedeswoman of St.
'And my father will defend you; and so will Sir Richard, said Alice, with complacent certainty in their full efficiency. 'And King Harry will interfere; and we will have your hospital; ay, we will. How can you talk so lightly of abandoning it? 'I only would know what is human pride, and what God's will, sighed Esclairmonde.
The ordering of the feast fell to Catherine and her train; and its splendours on successive days had their full development, greatly to the constraint and weariness, among others, of Esclairmonde, who was always assigned to Malcolm Stewart, and throughout these long days had to be constantly repressing him; not that he often durst make her any direct compliment, for he was usually quelled into anxious wistful silence, and merely eyed her earnestly, paying her every attention in his power.
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