FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97  
98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   >>   >|  
ovesomeness. For her husband, Captain _Martin_, that was an officer of _Calais_, coming home after that town was lost in Queen _Mary's_ time, was attaint of heresy and taken of Bishop _Bonner_, he lying long in prison, and should have been brent at the stake had not Queen _Mary's_ dying (under God's gracious ordering) saved him therefrom. And all these months was Mistress _Martin_ in dread disease, never knowing from one week to another what should be the end thereof. And indeed he lived not long after, but two or three years. Sir _Robert Stafford_, on the other part, was a wiser man; for no sooner was it right apparent, on Queen _Mary's_ incoming, how matters should turn, than he and his dame and their two daughters gat them over seas and dwelt in foreign parts all the days that Queen _Mary_ reigned. And in _Dutchland_ [Germany] were both their daughters wedded, the one unto a noble of that country, by name the Count of _Rothenthal_, and the other unto a priest, an Englishman that took refuge also in those parts, by name Master _Francis Digby_, that now hath a living in _Somerset_. Medoubteth if _Mother_ be told who Sir _Edwin Tregarvon_ were. _Milly_ 'bideth yet in the sulks, and when she shall come thereout will I not venture to guess. _Alice Lewthwaite_ come over this afternoon but for a moment, on her way to her aunt's, Mistress _Rigg_, and saith no word is yet heard of their _Blanche_, whom her father saith he will leather while he can lay on if she do return, while her mother is all for killing the fatted calf and receiving her back with welcome. SELWICK HALL, DECEMBER THE V. This morrow we set forth for _Lord's Island_, a goodly company--to wit, _Father_, and _Mother_, and Sir _Robert_ and my Lady _Stafford_, and Mistress _Martin_, and _Milisent_, and me. Too many were we for _Adam_ to row, and thought to take old _Matthias_, had not _Robin Lewthwaite_ chanced on us the last minute, and craved leave to take an oar, saying it should be a jolly pleasance for him to spend the day on _Lord's Island_. So _Father_ took the second oar, and _Adam_ steered, and all we got well across, thanks to God. We landed, _Father_ gave his hand to my Lady _Stafford_, and Sir _Robert_ to _Mother_, and _Robin_, pulling a face at _Milly_ and me (for I wis well he had liever have been with us), his to Mistress _Martin_. "Well, _Edith_," saith _Milly_, the pleasantest she hath spoken
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97  
98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Mistress

 

Martin

 

Mother

 

Stafford

 

Father

 
Robert
 

Lewthwaite

 

daughters

 

Island

 
father

Blanche

 
leather
 

mother

 

killing

 

return

 

landed

 

pulling

 

liever

 

spoken

 

venture


pleasantest

 

afternoon

 

moment

 

craved

 

goodly

 

pleasance

 

company

 

minute

 

Matthias

 

chanced


Milisent

 
thought
 

SELWICK

 

steered

 

receiving

 
DECEMBER
 

morrow

 

fatted

 

priest

 

disease


knowing

 

months

 

ordering

 

therefrom

 

thereof

 

gracious

 
coming
 

Calais

 

officer

 

ovesomeness