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"To drive the deer with hound and horne Earl Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborne The hunting of that day." Ballad of Chevy Chase. "Willemina!" said the old Lady Le Despenser to her bower-maiden, "what horn was that I heard but now without?" "Shall I certify your Ladyship?" asked Willemina, rising and gathering together the embroidered quilt on which she was working.
"Ay, child," said the Dowager; "so do." But when Willemina came back, she looked very important. "Madam, 'tis a sumner from my Lord's Grace of Canterbury, that beareth letter for Sir Ademar. Counteth your Ladyship that he shall be made bishop or the like?" "With Harry of Bolingbroke in the throne, and Thomas de Arundel bearing the mitre?" responded the old lady with a laugh.
"Marry, my maid, that were a new thing." "Were it so, Madam?" asked Willemina innocently. "This is not the world, child!" said the Dowager. "'Tis more like Well, Sir Ademar? Hath my Lord's Grace Jesu, pour ta pite!" Ademar had walked quietly into the room, and placed a paper in the hands of the Dowager.
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