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"Might it like your Madamship," she asked timidly, her curiosity at last overcoming her reserve, though she felt less at home with Dona Juana than with the other lady, "to tell me the name of the fair mistress that did give me into your charge?" "That is our Lady's Grace, maiden," said Juana rather stiffly, "the Lady Infanta Dona Isabel, Countess of Cambridge."
Then he sighs heavily, and saith: "But our King will never join with your Schmalkaldners. Yet I would give my head that he should."... Your madamship marks that this was said to the ambassador from the Lutheran league? 'You cannot twist that into a treason, Katharine whispered.
The former received Agnes with her customary amenities, merely suggesting, with pleasantry of her own kind, that of course 'twould be too heavy a toil for her gracious madamship to carry the water-pails to Horsepool the spring in West Smithfield which supplied Cow Lane and that so soon as she could hear tell of a gentlewoman lacking of a service, she would engage her at ten pound by the month to wait of her worshipfulness.
"Would you tell me, of your grace, whether our Lady mistresshood's graciousness hath in yonder city a dwelling?" Maude wondered exceedingly to see tears slowly gather in the sapphire eyes. "God grant it, little maid!" was, to her, the incomprehensible answer. "And if so were, Mistress, counteth your Madamship that our said puissant Lady should ever lack her pans cleansed yonder?"
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