Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-19
THE wINDHAM COUNTY REFoRMER, FRIDAY, JUNE ~, 1908
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less a treasure a. certain princess o.
the royal blood.
Brandon at once accepted the kings
offer of lodging in the palace. for now
that he felt sure Of himself In the mat
ter of New Spain and his separation
from Mary he longed to see as much Of
possible of her before the light went
out forever, even though 1t were play
ing with death itself to do so.
H Poor fellow! His suffering was SO
acute during this period that 1t anect'
ed me like contagion.
1t did not make NOPE OF him, bu1
came in spasms that almost drove him
wild. He would at times pace the
room and cry out: "Jesu, Caskoden,
what shall / do? She will be the wife
of the French king, and I shall sit In
the wilderness and try every moment
to imagine what she is doing and think
ing. l shall find the bearing OF Paris
and look in her direction until my brain
melts in my effort to see her, and then
I shall wander in the woods. suffer-
ing imbecile, feeding on roots and nuts.
Would to God one Of us might die! III
it were not selfish, l should wish
might be the one"
| said nothing in answer to these OUT
bursts, as l had no consolation to oner.
We had two or three Of our little
meetings of four, dangerous as they
were, at which Mary, feeling that each
time she saw Brandon might be the
last, would sit and look at him with
glowing eyes that in turn softened ana
burned as he spoke. She did not talk
much but devoted all her time and en-
ergies to looking with her whole soul.
Never before or since was there girl
so much in love. A young girl thor
oughly in love is the most beautiful
object on earth-beautiful even in ug-
illness. Imagine, then. what it made OF
Mary!
Growing partly perhaps, out OF his
nattainability-for he was as far out
Of her reach as she out of his-she had
long since begun to worship him. She
had learned to know him so well. and
his valiant defense Of her in Billings
gate, together with his noble self sacri-
fee in refusing to compromise her in
order to save himself, had presented
him to her in so noble light that she
had come to look up to him as her su-
perior Her surrender had been COM
plete. and she found in it a Joy far ex-
ceeding that Of any victory or triumph
she could imagine.
The trouble began In earnest with
the discovery of our meetings In Lady
Mary's parlor There was nothing at
all unusual in the fact that small COM
panies of young folk frequently spent
their evenings with her, but we knew
we'll enough that the unusual element (
In our parties was their exceeding /
smallness. A company of eight or ten 1
young persons was well enough, al
though it Of course created jealousy on |
the part of those who were left out. |
but four-two Of each sex-made diff
ference in kind, however much we
might insist it was only in degree. and
this, we soon learned, was the kings
opinion.
You may be sure there was many q
Jealous person about the court ready
to carry tales and that it was impossi-
BILE long to keep our meetings secret
among such host as then lived in
Greenwich palace.
One day the queen summoned Jane
and put her to the question. Now, Jane
thought the truth was made only to be
told, fallacy into which many good
people have fallen, to their utter de-
struction. since the truth, like every
other good thing, may be abused.
Well, Jane told II all in a moment,
and Catherine was SO Mortified that she
was like to faint. She went with he
hair-lifting horror to the king ant
poured into his ears a tale of impru
dence and debauchery well calculated
to start his righteous, virtue prompted
indignation into a threatening flame.
Mary. Jane. Brandon and myself
were at once summoned to the presence
of both their majesties and soundly
Three Of us were order
ed to leave the court before we could
speak word In self defense, and Jane Z
had enough of her favorite truth fol Q
once. Mary, however, came to our res
cue with her coaxing eloquence and I
potent feminine logic and soon con. :
WINGED Henry that the queen, who real
~ counted for little with him. had
made mountain out Of very small
Thus the royal wrath was ap
1eased to such an extent that the order
If expulsion was modified to a com.
nand that there beeno more quartet
gatherings in Princess Mary's parlor
This leniency was more easy for the
princess to bring about by reason of
he fact that she had not spoken to her
BROTHER since the day she went to see
i'm after Wolsey's visit and had beer
o roughly driven off. At first, upon
Ter refusal to speak to him after the
Volsey visit. Henry was angry on &C.
cunt of what he called her insolence.
ut as she did not seem to care for
hat and as his anger did nothing to. :
Yard unsealing her lips he pretended :
adherence. Still the same stubborn 6
Hence was maintained. This soon be- :,
an to amuse the king. and of late he m
ad been trying to be on friendly terms R
gain with his sister through series
elephantine antics and bearike pleas Il
ntries, which were the most dismal q
is, in the way of bring. ~
lg about Il reconciliation. They were p1
lore successful from comical point
view. So Henry was really glad for an