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Updated: September 23, 2025
I had settled matters with the absent gaffer, Doley, by putting one of my guineas conspicuously on the table, and was just finishing my task when Mistress Waynflete, who had stepped to the rear window and was looking back on the scene of my recent exploit, suddenly called out, "Oliver! Come here!"
The sun was shining cheerily, with power enough to melt the white rime off every blackened twig it lit upon, and it was still so cold that sharp walking was a keen delight. "Eight miles and more of it, Mistress Waynflete. I hope you can stand the pace and the distance." "I'm a soldier's daughter, not an alderman's," she replied curtly. The vicar was right.
Therefore, when Mistress Waynflete looked up to me from the bleak uplands with serious, questioning eyes, I said, as calmly as if we were pacing the garden at the Hanyards, with Kate and Jane active in the kitchen behind us, "Ham and eggs for breakfast!" "I don't see any," she said, in answering mood, scanning the fields around us. "Not that that matters.
But that century was not content with transforming the nave, it littered it with the first of its various delights, those chantries which are among the greatest splendours of this Cathedral, and which still, in some sort, commemorate Bishop Edingdon , Bishop Wykeham , Bishop Beaufort , Bishop Waynflete , Bishop Fox and Bishop Gardiner the last Catholic Bishop to fill the See.
I went ahead as guide, and in five minutes we arrived at the dock, where Joe, the boat out, cushioned and trim for the voyage, was vigorously slapping his hands crosswise round his waist to keep them warm. He held the boat up to the bank, I stepped in, handed in Mistress Waynflete, bestowed her with all possible comfort, settled by her side, and took the ropes.
I've got some rattling good snuff, and I'll give you a pinch for a plateful, as I did up in Staffordshire. I vow, Miss Waynflete, it makes me hungry to see him." This speech caused much laughter, and Margaret said it was fortunate supper was ready.
"Elizabeth can't speak worth a cent!" said Philip, with brotherly candour. "Can you, Lisa?" "I don't believe it," said Lord Waynflete, "but it don't matter. All they want is that a Gaddesden should say something. Ah, Mrs. Gaddesden how glorious the Romney looks to-night!" He turned to the fireplace, admiring the illuminated picture, his hands on his sides. "Is it an ancestress?"
"I've got one of them rabbits you sent me last market day by that lozzicking Joe Braggs, but he's a good gorby is Joe" here her voice softened, and madam smiled agreement "and this frost has kept it as sweet as a nut. If you're not too hungry to wait, I'll make you some rabbit-stew." "Rabbit-stew? I'll wait for that, and I'm sure Mistress Waynflete will," said I.
We turned into a cart-track on our left leading in the direction of Eccleshall. As we turned I saw that Bladder-face had mounted his horse and was coming on toward Stone. There was no doubt that we should be pursued from that quarter before long, and I grew heavy with anxiety as I saw how hardly we were being pressed. The encounter had not, however, disturbed Mistress Waynflete.
The scheme, however, was never completed, owing to the Wars of the Roses intervening, with the result that the estates with which he had intended to endow his almshouse were claimed by the Crown on the accession of the House of York. So it came about that in 1486 Bishop Waynflete was compelled to reduce the recipients of Beaufort's charity to one priest and two brethren. Fortunately, St.
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