Katharine Parr; or, The court of Henry viii, tr. from the Germ. of L. Mühlbach by J.R. Atkins, Volume 21862 |
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Page 156 - ... And what is he to do? What do you want of him? " She looked at him in astonishment. " What do I want of him? Why, that he may marry us! " The earl staggered back as if stunned. " And have you written him that also? " " Nay, indeed," said she, with a charming, childlike smile. " I know very well that it is dangerous to trust such secrets to paper. I have only written him to come in his official robes, because I have an important secret to confess to him.
Page 280 - ... your queen of a crime. I now demand that you name it !" She was of wondrous beauty in her proud, bold bearing — in her imposing, majestic tranquillity. The decisive moment had come, and she was conscious that her life and her future were struggling with death for the victory. She looked over to Thomas Seymour, and their eyes met. She saw how he laid his hand on his sword, and nodded to her a smiling greeting. be dragged to the Tower, he himself will plunge his sword into my breast," thought...
Page 215 - ... and the queen, likewise with this design, had withdrawn to her dressing-room, while the ladies and lords of her court were in attendance in the large anteroom to escort her to the throne. Without, it was beginning to grow dusky, and the twilight cast its long shadows across this hall, in which the cavaliers of the court were walking up and down with the ladies, and discussing the particularly important events of the day's tourney. The Earl of Sudley, Thomas Seymour, had borne off the prize of...
Page 28 - cried the king, laughing, as he pointed to the gigantic vases of Chinese porcelain, containing enormous bunches of roses, on whose long stems arose a real forest of formidable-looking thorns. " Pull the large bouquets to pieces; take the roses in your hand, and whip him with the stems! " said the king, and his eyes glistened with inhuman delight, for the scene promised to be quite interesting. The rose-stems were long and hard, and the thorns on them pointed and sharp as daggers. How nicely they...
Page 264 - ... not guilty. No, she was not. The eye of a culprit is not thus bright and clear. The air of infidelity is not thus unembarrassed — of such maidenly delicacy. Moreover, the king was exhausted and disgusted. One can become satiated even with cruelty ; and, at this hour, Henry felt completely surfeited with bloodshed. His heart — for, in such moments of mental relaxation and bodily enfeeblement, the king even had a heart — his heart was already in the mood of pronouncing the word pardon, when...
Page 97 - ... regardless of my oath and even the danger that threatens you, rush to you, and, before all the courtly rabble and the king himself, ask: ( Are you really what you seem? Are you, Catharine Parr, King Henry's wife — nothing more, nothing else than that? Or are you, my beloved, the woman who is mine in her every thought, her every breath; who has vowed to me eternal love and unchanging truth; and whom I, in spite of the whole world, and the king, press to my heart as my own?
Page 65 - You shall pay me for that, you double-faced, threadbare lout!" screamed Gammer Gurton, as she rushed on Hodge with clenched fist. But John Heywood's cunning servant had anticipated this; he had already slipped under the large table which stood in the middle of the room. As the housekeeper now made a plunge to drag him out of his extemporary fortress, he gave her such a hearty pinch on the leg, that she sprang back with a scream, and sank, wholly overcome by the pain, into the huge, leather-covered...
Page 145 - ... Douglas is not; neither is the Princess Elizabeth. She has watched with heart beating high. She is restless, and, pacing her room up and down in strange confusion, waited for the hour that she had appointed for the meeting. Now the hour had arrived. A glowing crimson overspread the face of the young princess; and her hand trembled as she took the light and opened the secret door to the corridor. She stood still for a moment, hesitating; then, ashamed of her irresolution, she crossed the corridor...
Page 270 - She is a complete actress," thought Henry Howard, in the madness of his pain. "Not a muscle of her face stirs; and yet this sonnet must remind her of the fairest and most sacred moment of our love." The queen remained unmoved and cold. But had Henry Howard looked at Lady Jane Douglas, he would have seen how she turned pale and blushed; how she smiled with rapture, and how, nevertheless, her eyes filled with tears. Earl Surrey, however, saw nothing but the queen; and the sight of her made him tremble...
Page 78 - ... fun and merriment; and you two have, without knowing it, furnished me with the choicest materials for a piece which, by the king's order, I have to write within six days. I owe you, then, many thanks, and will show my gratitude forthwith. Listen well to me, my amorous and tender pair of turtle-doves, and mark what I have to say to you. One cannot always tell the wolf by his hide, for he sometimes put on a sheep's skin; and so, too, a man cannot always be recognized by his voice, for he sometimes...