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Updated: June 11, 2025
Old Mrs Headley was better again, though not able to do much but sit by the fire kept burning to drive away the plague which was always smouldering in London. She held out her hands to Stephen, as he knelt down by her. "Take an old woman's blessing, my good youth," she said. "Right glad am I to see thee once more.
Old Mistress Headley, who was already failing, did not have the actual disease severely, but she never again left her bed, and died just after Christmas, sinking slowly away with little pain, and her memory having failed from the first.
There was nothing to be done but to collect again, and escort Stephen, who had wiped the mud off his face, to the Dragon court, where Dennet danced on the steps for joy, and Master Headley, not a little gratified, promised Stephen a supper for a dozen of his particular friends at Armourers' Hall on the ensuing Easter Sunday.
They shall all hear of me some of these days. Will Wherry is my groom, and commends him to his mother. And so, commending thee and all the rest to Our Lady and the saints, "Thine to command, "Giles Headley, "Man-at-Arms in the Honourable Company of Sir John Fulford, Knight." On a separate strip was written
His present feeling was relief from the hideous load he had felt while dwelling on the Dance of Death, and therewith general goodwill to all men, which found its first issue in compassion for Giles Headley, whom he found on his return seated on the steps moody and miserable. "Would that you had been with us," said Ambrose, sitting down beside him on the step.
But he was thankful to receive and execute orders from Master Headley, since so certain a connection would secure Aldonza from privation such as the child had sometimes had to endure in the winter; when, though the abstemious Eastern nature needed little food, there was great suffering from cold and lack of fuel.
Headley was better again, though not able to do much but sit by the fire kept burning to drive away the plague which was always smouldering in London. She held out her hands to Stephen, as he knelt down by her. "Take an old woman's blessing, my good youth," she said. "Right glad am I to see thee once more.
Headley, why is it persisted in, that I was absent and even if such were the case, might not I have had a good reason for refusing to commit myself by the avowal." "Admitting this, could you have maintained your position without, in a measure, setting his authority at defiance thus encouraging the men to do the same. Was this right, I ask? Was this officer-like?" "Well, no, perhaps not.
Tibble nodded entire assent, but when the boys appeared in their mourning suits, with their bundles on their backs, they were sent back again to put on their forest green, Master Headley explaining that it was reckoned ill-omened, if not insulting, to appear before any great personage in black, unless to enhance some petition directly addressed to himself.
"I'm here with half Flanders to see this mighty show, and pick up a few more lusty Badgers at this encounter of old comrades. Is old Headley here?" "Nay, he is safe at home, where I would I were," sighed Kit. "And you are my young master his nephew, who knew where to purvey me of good steel," added Fulford, shaking Giles's hand.
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