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Updated: June 24, 2025
He ogled Udal's wife in the gallant manner and prayed her to prepare a bed for him in that hostelry. He had been minded to lodge with a Frenchman named Clement; but having seen her ... 'Learned sir, she answered, 'a good bed I have for you. But if he sought to go beyond her lips she had a body-guard of spitmen that the magister's self had seen.
In order to prove the fact, the crown lawyers did not produce a single witness to the court: they only read the testimony of two persons absent, one of whom said, that Udal had told him he was the author; another, that a friend of Udal's had said so. * It was never fully established that the prisoner could legally produce evidence against the crown, till after the revolution.
She tried to speak but she choked; she grasped Udal's hand as if to wring from him the denial of his foolish lies, but a sharp and numbing pain shot up her maimed wrist to her shoulders and leaped across her forehead. 'Thou filthy spy, the dark girl laughed wildly into her agonised face. 'If there had never been any like thee all the dear men of my house had still breathed.
'God knows what we may believe in these days. Doubtless the Nuntio of Satan hath a new plot in the hatching. Making these enquiries, the chaplain came upon the backwash of Udal's reports that the King loved some leman. Some lady, somewhere some said a Howard, some a Rochford, some would have it a Spanish woman was being hidden up, either by the King, by the Duke of Norfolk, or by Privy Seal.
'I shall never go near his Highness again, Katharine said. 'Aye, but you will, he answered, 'for 'tis your nature to meddle; or 'tis your nature to work for the blessed saints. Put it which way you will. But his Highness meditateth to come near you. 'Why, you are mad, Katharine said wearily. 'This is that maggot of Magister Udal's. He lifted one finger in an affected, philosophic gesture.
The hostess, working with her comfortable sway of the hips, drove them gently through the door to let a silence fall; but gradually Udal's jaw closed, his eyes grew smaller, he started suddenly and the muscles of his knees regained their tension. The hostess, swishing her many petticoats beneath her, sat down again on the stool. 'Insipiens et infacetus quin sum! the magister mused.
The Lady Mary's rooms were seventeen in number; they ran the one into the other, but they could each be reached by the public corridor alongside. It was Magister Udal's privilege, his condition being above that of serving man, to make his way through the rooms if he knew that the Lady Mary was not in one of them.
'A hath bolted the door; thus his secretaries shall not come to him. See now. She slid back a board in the wall, and Udal could see into what appeared to be a cupboard filled with a litter of papers and of parchments. Udal's heart began to beat so that he noted it there; his eyes searched hers with a glittering excitement nevertheless a half fear of awakening the envoy kept him from speaking.
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