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Updated: June 18, 2025
"We are not a large party, and we fully relied on having your company," said my cousin. "You came out here to see the country, and you will know nothing about it if you stop in the house and only take a short ride occasionally with the girls or paddle them about on the river. You can return with us, and stop here afterwards as long as you like." Still Rochford would not promise to go.
The worthy judge and his wife, who appeared to have taken a liking for Rochford, had frequent conversations with him, and he told me that they had given him an invitation to their home, which he had gladly accepted. "I hope that we shall meet there," I observed.
Lady Rochford addressed herself to Katharine with limp gestures of protest: 'God knows I would help you to a gown, but we have no more than we are granted; here are seven ladies and seven dresses. Where can another be got? The King's Highness knoweth little of ladies' gowns or he had never ordered one against to-night. Each of those hath taken the women seven weeks to sew.
To talk to a man who could imitate the way the Duke of Gloucester limped at a levee when suffering from the gout, and who was able to introduce a story by saying, "As Lady Rochford once said to me at one of her routs " was almost like meeting those distinguished beings themselves.
Old Rochford smiled with his air of tranquil wisdom and corpulent age. 'I have struck good blows, he said. 'There have been thirteen ballads writ of me. 'You have kept so close a tongue, Katharine said to him hotly, 'that I know not what you love. Be you for the old faith, or for this Church of devils that Cromwell hath set up in the land? Did you love Queen Katharine or Queen Anne Boleyn?
I undertook to be answerable for his making no attempt to escape; but all I could say had no effect, and Rochford was kept with his arms pinioned, unless when two men were standing by him with loaded rifles in their hands. Our journey was therefore a far from pleasant one.
She gave him indifferently her cheek to kiss. 'For pity's sake take me where I may rest, she said, 'I have a maimed arm. He uttered her panegyric, after a model of Tibullus, to the Lady Rochford and the seven maids of honour under that lady's charge.
Lady Rochford shuddered as if she had been struck. 'Beseech you, she said weakly to Katharine. 'Cicely Elliott is sometimes distraught. Believe not that we speak like this among ourselves. Her eyes wandered in a flustered and piteous way over her girls and she whimpered, 'Jane Gaskell, stand back to back with this lady.
We were soon joined by the rest of the party in the veranda, and Rochford seemed more astonished than any one on hearing what had happened. He told us that he had thought of offering to accompany the chief back to his home, that he might have an opportunity of seeing Indian customs and manners.
"You need not be anxious," said the judge; "these Indian troubles will soon be put a stop to. If Rochford doesn't return during the morning, we must organise an expedition to search for him.
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