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He eyed her solemnly and said that if she were minded to wed this roaring boy they might both, and soon, earn fortunes to buy them land in a distant shire. The young Poins, in his scarlet and black, drew his sister into a corner of the hall in which the gentry of the Lords that were there had already dined.
Cicely Elliott was watching him and thinking of nothing else, Margot Poins was weeping all day, because the magister had been bidden to go to Paris to turn into Latin the letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt. There was no one around Katharine that was not engrossed in his own affairs. In that beehive of a place she had been utterly alone with horror in her soul.
The times were indeed past, when Anthony-a-Wood mourned over the execution of two men, goodly in person, and of undisputed courage and honour, who were hanged without mercy at Oxford, merely because their distress had driven them to raise contributions on the highway. We were still farther removed from the days of "the mad Prince and Poins."
He met the young Poins at the head of the village street, and learned from him that Culpepper and his supporter had hired horses to ride to Hampton and had galloped away three hours before, holding legs of mutton by the feet and using them for cudgels to beat their horses. 'Before God! the boy said, 'an I had money to hire horses I would overtake them, if I overtook not the devil erstwhile.
I can take purses yet, ye Uzzite comforters, as gaily as I did at Gadshill, where that scurvy Poins, and he that is now King, and some twoscore other knaves did afterward assault me in the dark; yet I peppered some of them, I warrant you!" "You must be rid of me, then, master," Bardolph interpolated. "I for one have no need of a hempen collar."
'I am under oath to a certain one to use no violence upon this man, Throckmorton said, 'and to encourage no other to do violence. Poins thrust his round, brick-red brow out like a turkey cock's from the boat cloak into Throckmorton's face. 'I am under no oath of yourn! he shouted. Throckmorton shrugged his shoulders and wagged one finger at him. 'No oath o' yourn! the boy repeated.
In them it was already nearly dark. It was in that way that, landing at the barge stage, a little stiff with the cold of his barge journey, Throckmorton came upon the young Poins in his scarlet breeches, his face cut and bleeding in his contact with the earth, his sword gone. Privy Seal's men that had fallen upon him had kicked him out of the palace gates.
He sent Margot Poins from the room, and stood in the firelight that threw his great shadow to shake upon the hangings, towering above Katharine Howard upon her knees. He was silent, as if he would threaten her, and his brooding eyes glowed and devoured her face. Here then, she thought, was the man from the other camp descending secretly upon her.
Stepan Trofimovitch assured her that this was only the first riotous effervescence of a too richly endowed nature, that the storm would subside and that this was only like the youth of Prince Harry, who caroused with Falstaff, Poins, and Mrs. Quickly, as described by Shakespeare.
For I depart towards Dover to-night, else this springald cardinal will be gone from Paris ere I come. 'Men shall make us cry, in the end, steel our hearts how we will, she said to Margot Poins, who found her weeping with her head down upon the table above a piece of paper. 'I would weep for no man, Margot answered.
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