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But both of them were sorely shocked to discover, when she had been about two months at Bury, that poor Beatrice was still ignorant of the five commandments of the Church. Nor was this all: she irreverently persisted in her old inquiry of "What is the Church?" and sturdily demanded what right the Church had to give commandments. Hawise was quite distressed.
Here is Hawise, standing behind her of the throne and the centre, with a hand on her bare shoulder. She is laughing, sleepily; she is distinctly pretty, but distinctly, also, fat. She cannot be the owner of this room. There's a taste for names in the Percival family: we have Philippa, Hawise.
Hawise is old-fashioned," said the lady coolly. Maude seized her cousin's hands, and looking into her eyes, spoke as girls of her age rarely speak, though they think frequently. "Come back to me, Hawise Gerard! from the dead, if thou wilt have it so.
Thy mother Eleanor is not more dead than she; but the one may return to thee on the resurrection morrow, and the other never can. Tell me now whether I could arede thee, as thou wouldst have had it, how, or where, or when, thy cousin Hawise died?" "Our dear Lady be thine aid, Hawise! What has changed thee so sore?" asked Maude, the tears running down her cheeks. "Call me Avice, Maude.
But what are counties to you? You smile and you may well smile. Let the county go hang; but there's Vicky. She's more than county to you. There's Melusine, there's Philippa, there's Hawise; there's your good old dad, there's your lady mother. You get 'em all. And Nevile's biting his nails for it. And a free man. Come now." She had listened, that's certain; she hadn't been displeased.
Eva was a rather pretty, fair-haired girl, about two years older than our heroine. "The pedlar is coming now, Margaret." "Yes, and both Hawise and Marie." Hawise de Lanvalay was the young wife of Margaret's eldest brother.
At that point Beatrice left the room in answer to a call from the Countess; and Hawise, turning to her companions, remarked in a whisper that it must be that dreadful Jewish blood on the mother's side which had given her such very improper notions. They were so low!
Since the world began for Maude, that cottage and the forge had always stood there, and its inhabitants had always been Grandfather, and Uncle David, and Aunt Elizabeth, and Cousin Hawise, and Cousin Jack, and Mother.
"I never had any father!" she said, in a pained tone. "Cousin Hawise had a father, and he wrought iron on the anvil. But I had none never! I had a mother that was all." "And what called men thy mother?" "Eleanor Gerard." "Then thy name is Maude Gerard," said Oliva, sharply. Maude's silence appeared to indicate that she declined to commit herself either affirmatively or negatively.
Yes, Maude admitted, the Lady de Narbonne was beautiful; yet she did not care to look at her. Bertram was disappointed. And so was Maude, for all hope of finding Hawise had disappeared. When supper was over, the tables were lifted. The festive board was at this time literally a board or boards, which were simply set upon trestles to form a table.
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