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By questioning this boy that we have in gaol, by gaoling this Lady Katharine why, we shall put her to the thumbscrews! by gaol and by thumbscrew, we shall gar her to set her hand to another make of confession. Then you may go to the King's Highness. 'Nick Throckmorton, Cromwell said, 'Winchester hath to-night the King's ear....
'Oh, you shall see my triumph! Throckmorton answered. He bent himself nearly double as he passed through the door. Cromwell sat down in his great chair, and his eyes gazed at nothing through the tapestry of his room. In Katharine Howard's room they had the form of the boy, wet, grey, and mud-draggled, lying on the ground between them.
Lord James was to have the earldom, and he got it; Mary was to have his support. Much has been said about Lord James's betrayal to Throckmorton of Mary's intentions, as revealed by her to himself. But what Lord James said to Throckmorton amounts to very little.
"So rumor informs me," rasped Parson Throckmorton, "but you will give yourself no grand airs with me. Construe this passage properly or I must tan those leather breeches with a limber rod." This was too much for the insulted Jack who slammed down the book, clapped on his hat, and tramped from the room in high dudgeon.
The families of Wyatt, Peyton and Throckmorton are perhaps the only ones derived from English houses of historic note; but they were never, in Virginia, as eminent for large estates and political influence as others of the same county whose English ancestry is of much less distinction.
The comfortable figure in the arm-chair at her side caught a glow of the faint halo that surrounded poor Pam; but in this case the glow had a more roseate tinge, and was altogether free from the funereal gray that in Pamela always gave Theo a sense of sympathizing discomfort. The next day she wrote to Pamela: "I have not had time yet to decide how I like Lady Throckmorton," she said.
"It had been reported by some in the county, those that thought themselves wise, that this Mother Samuel ... was an old simple woman, and that one might make her by fayre words confesse what they would." Moreover the tone of the writer's defense makes it evident that others beside Mother Samuel laid the action of the Throckmorton children to "wantonness."
She knew him to be only a man among men, a simple farm labourer, and Hubert Throckmorton, wearied by the adulation of his feminine public, was instantly charmed by her coy acceptance of his attentions. That this charm should ripen to love was to be expected. Here was a child, simple, innocent, of a wild-rose beauty in her print dress and sunbonnet, who would love him for himself alone.
Cromwell had listened to the reading of this letter in silence; in silence he re-perused it himself, pacing up and down, and in between phrases of his thoughts he read passages from it and nodded his head. That this was a very dangerous enterprise Throckmorton was assured; it was the first overt act of his that Privy Seal could discover in him as a treachery.
"That is, if you call this home; I must confess it doesn't feel so to me altogether." "Well, it's our own dear, noisy, raging, racketing, bustling old city, if it isn't our own house, and I'm sure we're very comfortable." "Very," said Mrs. Throckmorton, who was always pleased.
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