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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Upon my soul, dear Mistress Falkingham, I love your cleverness," said the King, "and I will go further, I " He stooped and whispered in her ear, but she drew back in affright and anxiety. "Oh, your Majesty, your Majesty," she said, "I had not thought " She moved on distractedly, but he put out his hand and stayed her. "Ah, a moment, sweetheart," he urged.
Her fingers clasped in eager emphasis. "Dost thou not see, my child," said he, "that any hour the King's troops may surround our house and take me prisoner and separate thee from me? I see but one thing to do; even to take thee at once from here and place thee with thy aunt, Mistress Falkingham, in Shrewsbury." "Father," the girl said, "thou shalt not put me away from thee.
She had told the Princess then that she was the daughter of an exiled English gentleman, and was in the care of her aunt, one Mistress Falkingham, while her father was gone on an expedition to Italy. The Princess, eager to learn English, engaged her, and she had remained in the palace till the Princess left for England.
When the King was beheaded at Whitehall he mourned and lamented the miserable crime with the best of his countrymen. It was about this time that he journeyed into France, and there he stayed with his daughter two years. Mistress Falkingham, her aunt, was with her, and watched over her as carefully as when she was a child in Enderby House.
Charles waved a gentle and playful gesture of dissent from her extreme formality, and, with a look of admiration, continued: "My Lord Rippingdale should know somewhat of that 'first violence' of which you have read, Mistress Falkingham. He is of Lincolnshire." "He knows all, your Majesty; he was present at that 'first violence."
Is it all there, Mistress Falkingham?" said the King, nodding towards the pages she held. "It is not all here, your Majesty; but I can tell what so many in England know, and something of what no one in England knows." The Queen put out her hand as if to stay the telling, for she saw what an impression her fair reader had made upon the King.
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