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Updated: June 18, 2025
'It will go hard if he escape all our Italy men. I hold it for certain that Winchester shall have reported to him in Paris that this Culpepper is on the road. Will you speak with this Howard wench? Cromwell knitted his brows in uncertainty. 'It was her cousin that should clamour about this murder in Paris, Viridus reminded him. 'Is she without? Cromwell asked.
'Why, 'tis a good knave, yon Viridus. He promised or ever I asked it. He was on his knees before her as she sat, with his arms about her waist. 'Sha't not cry, dear dove, he mumbled. 'Sha't go with me to Paris. She sighed: 'No, no. Bide here, and passed her hand through his ruffled hair. 'I would slay thee an thou were false to me, he whispered over her hand. 'Get thee with me.
Cromwell listened with little nods, marking each item of these instructions. 'Listen now to me, he said; 'give attentive ear. Viridus dropped his eyes to the floor, as one who lends all his faculties to be subservient to his hearing. 'At six or thereabouts T. Culpepper shall reach this Court. Ye shall have men ready to bring him straightway to thee.
Lascelles was to watch for Culpepper, to hasten to Viridus, to attend upon the pair of them as the pilot-fish attendeth upon the ghostly and silent shark, not to leave them till the work was accomplished, or, upon the least sign of treason in Viridus or another, to come hastening as never man hastened, to Privy Seal.
Suddenly he drew it back and said in Latin, 'Here is a spy. He did not flinch, but advanced into the corridor, keeping his back to the servitor whom already Master Viridus had sent to keep her door. Gardiner fumbled in his robes and pulled out his missal. He turned the pages over, and, speaking in a feigned and squeaky voice, once more indicated to her prayers against the visitations of fiends.
'You see some friends, Viridus' voice asked beside her. 'Nay, I have no friends here, Katharine answered. She could not tell that the bearded spy's eyes were not merely amorous in their intention, for such looks she was used to, and he was a very vile man. 'In short, Viridus spoke, 'it were an excellent action to act in all things as the Queen does. For fashions are a matter of fashion.
He could seek her if he wanted her company, so she went into another part of the hall, where they were all strangers. Except for the mere prudence of pretending to obey Viridus until it should be safe to defy him and his master, she troubled little about what was going to happen to her. It was enough that she was away from the home where she had pined and been lonely.
He rolled it neatly, placed it in his belt, and four times stamped his foot on the floor. There came in at this signal, Viridus, the one of his secretaries that had first instructed Katharine Howard as to her demeanour. Since then, he had had among his duties the watching over Thomas Culpepper.
'Sir, the man said again, 'some lord will have these lands an ye come not to Hampton ere six of the clock. I know not the way of it that be a servant. But Master Viridus sent me with this message. Already a thin swirl of blue smoke was ascending past the friar's figure to the bright sky; it caressed the beam of the gallows and Culpepper's bloodshot eye pursued it upwards.
The suggestion of Viridus that Katharine might be made either to discover or to invent one had filled him with satisfaction. There was no one who could be more believed if she could be ground down into swearing away the life of her uncle or any other man of high station. And to grind her down thus needed only many threats.
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