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Gardiner and Wriothesley stood there in silence, watching the king, who slowly and heavily traversed the adjacent hall, and whose cheery and laughing voice came ringing back to them. "He is a weathercock, turning every moment from side to side," said Gardiner, with a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.
Wriothesley with merely a bow it would be difficult to say, but certain it is that Mr. Cottrell supposed that to be her intention. Prompted by his insatiable passion for teasing his fellow-creatures, he took advantage of his situation, and, turning from Mrs. Wriothesley and Sylla, placed himself in Lady Mary's way, and stopped her to shake hands.
This Thomas Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, was the son of the second Earl, whose name is immortalized as the patron and the friend of Shakespeare. Both had seen much amiss in the government of Strafford, and had been glad to think that what they deemed his innovations would receive a check.
When Ralph Wriothesley of the Household Cavalry, better known among his intimates as the "Rip," married pretty Miss Lewson, niece of that worldly and bitter-tongued old Lady Fanshawe, everybody said what a fool he had made of himself. What did he, a man who had already developed a capacity for expenditure much in excess of his income, want with a wife who brought little or no grist to the mill?
Wriothesley, to see what that lady thought of the spirited manner in which her niece stood up for the vanquished Hussar; but she and Lady Mary were just then engaged in welcoming Lionel Beauchamp, and the observation consequently escaped their ears. "I beg your pardon," rejoined Cottrell; "I did not know your sympathies were so strong.
You might determine an alliance or a divorce between breath and breath; but the training of your instruments, the weeding out of them that had flaws in their fidelities; the exhibiting of a swift and awful vengeance upon mutineers these were the things that called for thinking and long furrowing of brows. He considered of this point whilst Wriothesley spoke long and earnestly.
Wriothesley is sitting in her pretty little drawing-room listening to Sylla Chipchase's spirited account of her visit to Todborough Rectory. "It was great fun," continued the girl. "Lady Mary Bloxam was thoroughly convinced, and no doubt is still, that I was setting my cap at Lionel Beauchamp.
Wriothesley took charge of nieces for the season, she conceived it her clear and bounden duty to provide for them satisfactorily if possible. If Sylla could not be brought to think of Lionel Beauchamp, it might be possible for her to take a more favourable view of Captain Bloxam.
'Pity we must have thy head. Wriothesley cleared his throat, and having considered, spoke earnestly. 'It is before all things expedient and necessary, he said, 'that we do keep you, my Lord Privy Seal, and you, my Lord of Canterbury, at the head of the State. That was above all necessary.
Cromwell, with his deaf face, passed once more before them. He addressed himself in brief, sharp tones to Wriothesley: 'You say, in Paris an envoy from Cleves was come a week agone? and passed on. 'It must be bowed to, Cranmer continued his speech. 'I do maintain it. There is no way but to divorce the Queen. Again Lascelles nodded; it was Wriothesley this time who spoke.
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