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"Prithee, dear mother," added Humfrey, seeing no relenting in her countenance, "I did but mean to hinder Cis from being maltreated and a go-between in this traffic with an old witch, not to bring Tony into trouble." "His face is a tell-tale, Humfrey," said Susan. "I meant ere now to have put a piece of beef on it. Come in, Antony, and let me wash it."
"But who dares not lift a finger to cross his fellow," said Mary, leaning back resignedly. "And this is the young gentleman's love for your Grace!" exclaimed Jean Kennedy. "Nay, madam," said Humfrey, stung to the quick, "but I am sworn!" "Let him alone, Nurse Jeanie!" said Mary. "He is like the rest of the English. They know not how to distinguish between the spirit and the letter!
Humfrey had listened to all with what countenance he might, and gave as little sign as possible. But when the tragedy had been consummated, and he had seen the fair head fall, and himself withdrawn poor little Bijou from beneath his dead mistress's garment, handing him to Jean Kennedy, he had with blood still curdling with horror gone down to the stables, taken his horse, and ridden away.
"And yet," she went on, "they do say he be as fine a man as a wench will walk through the rain to glimpse at, and a brave and a learned; but that he wed a Spanish maid, and she betrayed him, and so he hath vowed to hate women, one and all." "Hast thou seen him?" "Nay, but I've had him itemized to me by the wife o' Humfrey Lemon. A blue eye, a hooked nose, a "
She was a sister of the Earl of Lincoln who had come to the title in 1619, and whose family had a more intimate connection with the New England settlements than that of any other English nobleman. Her sister Susan had become the wife of John Humfrey, another member of the company, and the close friendship between them and the Dudleys made it practically a family party.
I should not wonder if she had devised this fellow's suit." "This is the very madness of jealousy, Humfrey," said his father. "The whole matter was, as thy mother and thy Lord have both told me, simply a device of my Lady Countess's own brain." "Babington took to it wondrous naturally," muttered Humfrey.
"When mother whipped thee for listening to fortune-tellers and wasting thy substance. Ay, I mind it well," said Humfrey, "and how thou didst stand simpering at her pack of lies, ere mother made thee sing another tune." "Nay, Humfrey, they were no lies, though I thought them so then.
But when the horsemen had disappeared down the avenue, Cis hid herself in a corner and cried as if her heart would break. She cried again behind the back of the tall settle when the father came back alone, full of praises of Captain Frobisher, his ship, and his company, and his assurances that he would watch over Humfrey like his own son.
"My Lady is altogether beyond reason," said Captain Talbot, returning one evening to his wife; "neither my Lord nor her daughter can do ought with her; so puffed up is she with this marriage! Moreover, she is hotly angered that young Babington should have been sent away from her retinue without notice to her, and demands our Humfrey in his stead as a page."
Berenger meantime opened the Bible, glanced over the few verses he meant to read, found the place in the Prayer-book, and was going to the stairs to call Humfrey, when Philip broke forth: 'Wait, Berry; don't be in such haste. 'What, you want time to lose the taste of your dealings with the devil? said Berenger, smiling. 'Pshaw! No devil in the matter, testily said Philip.
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