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Considering the character of the Duke "violent in all his feelings, loving to madness, hating to fury, and rarely overcoming a prejudice once entertained" the suspicion is aroused that all the early sacrifices made by his mother, all the gallant defence of his dominions, the utter self-abnegation and the tender love, were suffered to pass by him as the idle wind, in order that he might revenge himself upon her for the one occasion on which she prevented him from breaking his pledged word to King Edward's daughter, and committing a mesalliance with Alix de Ponteallen.

"Would he come, if he were asked yet again, and knew that a few weeks maybe days would end his mother's life?" "I doubt it, Perrotine." "Wherefore? He can love well where he list." "Ay, where he list. But I misdoubt if ever he loved her at the least, sithence she let him from wedding the Damoiselle de Ponteallen." "Then he loved the Damoiselle very dearly?" "For a month ay."

"But wherefore, when the matter was by " Lady Basset answered with a bitter little laugh, which reminded Perrote of her mother's. "Because he loved Jean de Montfort, and she thwarted him, not the Damoiselle. He loved Alix de Ponteallen passionately, and passion dies; 'tis its nature. It is not passionately, but undyingly, that he loves himself. Men do; 'tis their nature."