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cellor wished to have on a plan on
packing the parliament with members
likely to favor his financial scheme.
1t was one of the chancellor's princi-
Piles to alternate comparative trifles
with the consideration of grave affairs.
1t gave him a certain sense of mastery,
feeling as if the weighty affairs were
we'll within his grasp, when he could
put them OH one side, and, leaving
them there disposed of, deity take up
and handle concerns of less consequence.
When he had given Reginald his
instructions, and satisfied himself that
they were fully comprehended, he
unused for little and said, with be-
novelt air,
"You can pass Sudbury on your way
to Cavendish, can you not?''
eyes, SIR said Reginald; cit is
almost as short from Rockingham as the
other road"
The chancellor was a native of Sud-
bury, took his name from the place,
and had founded a college of secular
priests there on the site of his fathers
house; Reginald supposed that he had
some message to send to the college,
and as he paused for moment asked
whether it was not so.
"No," said the chancellor, cit is
your brother Ralph that wish to see."
Reginald gavea look of inquiry.
81 hear that he has been preaching
Wycliffism there"
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self-satisfied that even this heresy,
which had given him so much trouble,
he could mention with a smiling coun-
tenance. Ralph Hardelot's lapse into
the heresy struck him at the moment
as boyish freak.
Reginald's face, on the other hand,
expressed keen annoyance.
"Ralph has been behaving of late
like fool" he said. 81 cannot under
stand him. He seems to me to have
gone mad"
81 think you before mentioned,
said the chancellor, showing his sense
of the humor of the fact by the working
of his lips and the wrinkles over his
lean jaws-'T think you mentioned be-
fore that young woman had some
thing to do with it."
eyes, SIR" stammered Reginald,
reddening in way that his master
could not understand and did not trou-
BILE to inquire into.
"You might contrive to see him as
you pass Sudbury" said the chancel-
lor. 81 hear he is there doing the best
in his power to unsettle all who are
foolish enough to listen to him. l
trust he will not prove another John
Ball"
With this he dismissed the young
man on his embassy. We will leave
the chancellor and his great affairs for
a space, and follow the course of the
young man.
Reginald did not consider it neces-
sary to mention to his master that
Clara Roos, who had had something to
do with his brothers perversion, had
been at Pleshy among the conspirators
employed to persuade the heiress to
forsake the world and enter convent.
She had been brought there as an
awful example of the dangers of matri-
mony. Of her qualifications to illus
trate this we shall say more presently.
She was somewhat perverse person,
and had taken pleasure in crossing
the purpose she was intended to for
ward. She had been taken to Pleshy
to impress on Mary Bohun that mar
ried life was insupportable, and that
peace was to be found only in the con-
vent; this was not the impression she
produced on the mind of the heiress.
Reginald's first important destipa-
tion in his journey was Castle Heding-
ham, where the boy king Richard was
spending few days with his favorite,
De We're; but the chancellor had de-
cided that he should take Pleshy on his
way, and communicate his good news
to the Countess of Buckingham. 1t
should be very welcome to her, as inn
proving the prospects of her lords ex-
petition in France. The emissary was
glad of his masters decision, because
he thought there was chance of his
finding Clara Roos still at Pleshy.
He rode along in his brilliant cos
tune of white and red, with his two
yeomen behind him, in high content
with himself and the world at large;
and, as he rode, he hummed one of the
ballads of Eustache Deschamps, pop
ular poet of the time:
ale droit jour dune Penthecoasts
En- ce or scieux moys de May,
Celle GU Fay m'esperance tout
En- un joiis vergier touvay
Cueillant roses: puts lui priay-
Bsisiez moy. 81 dit. Voulontiers"
He was disappointed at Pleshy.
Clara had gone. But as he rode on to
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