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"Constantinopolis;" and so on we went, supposing that we understood each other, she supplying me with new forms of bastard Latin words, and adding with a smile, _Romani_, or Wallachian, as the language and people of Wallachia are called by themselves.
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As for the wines, there were Bordeaux (Gascon), and Malmsey (Rhenish), and Romeneye, Bastard and Osey (very sweet the last two); and for liquors hippocras and clary (not claret).
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A League to Enforce Peace and the President's idea of disentangling alliances are all in the right direction, but vague and general and cumbersome, a sort of bastard children of Neutrality.
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### Craphound ========= Craphound had wicked yard-sale karma, for a rotten, filthy alien bastard.
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Truth be told, I missed the little bastard.
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Paranoid bastard.
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The cut is too fresh to hurt, but it's bleeding freely and I know it'll sting like a bastard soon enough.
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Can you believe the bastards actually expect me at the office today?"
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The door caromed back into his heel and nearly sent him sprawling, but he converted its momentum into a jog through the halls to his miniature office -- the last three times he'd spoken to Fede, the bastard had been working out of his office -- stealing his papers, no doubt, though that hadn't occurred to Art until his plane was somewhere over Ireland.
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"Still a clever bastard.
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The shame of his birth remained in his name of "the Bastard."
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He was crowned at Christmas-tide; and soon joined by Robert Earl of Gloucester, a bastard son of Henry and the chief of his nobles; while the issue of a charter from Oxford in 1136, a charter which renewed the dead king's pledge of good government, promised another Henry to the realm.
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No battle had been fought, but John had seized many of the royal castles, and the indignation stirred by Longchamp's arrest of Archbishop Geoffry of York, a bastard son of Henry the Second, called the whole baronage to the field.
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His ministers still clung to him, men such as Geoffrey de Lucy, Geoffrey de Furnival, Thomas Basset, and William Briwere, statesmen trained in the administrative school of his father and who, dissent as they might from John's mere oppression, still looked on the power of the Crown as the one barrier against feudal anarchy: and beside them stood some of the great nobles of royal blood, his father's bastard Earl William of Salisbury, his cousin Earl William of Warenne, and Henry Earl of Cornwall, a grandson of Henry the First.
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Henry of Trastamara, a bastard son of Pedro's father Alfonso the Eleventh, had long been a refugee at the French court, and soon after the treaty of Brétigny Charles in his desire to revenge this murder on Pedro gave Henry aid in an attempt on the Castilian throne.
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His murder by Henry's hand left the bastard undisputed master of Castille.
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[_Pause._] The lucky bastard!
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It is astonishing how immediately wealth brings in, as its companion, meanness: they walk together, and stand together, and kneel together, as the hectoring, prodigal Faulconbridge, the Bastard Plantagenet in _King John_, does with his white-livered, puny brother, Robert.
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"Gracious, Moisson, tell me about it;" and without further solicitation, Moisson told me the following story: "My mother was a Brécourt, whose ancestor was a bastard of Gaston d'Orleans, and she was on this account a royalist, and very proud of her nobility.
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He had chanced to ride by St. Paul's Cross while Dr. Shaw was in the midst of his sermon on "Bastard slips shall not take deep root."
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"Yet Parliament has declared them bastards and so never eligible to the crown," Richard objected.
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"The Beauforts were bastards," he answered, "and Parliament specifically refused them the royal dignity; yet who, to-day, is Lancaster's chief and claimant for your Crown but the heir of those same Beauforts?
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I told him "it was a bastard art; and I rejoiced, in common with every man of taste or feeling, that _that_ art had not made its appearance before the publication of his work upon Egypt."
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But if ye be without chastisement, whereof _all_ are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
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No coloured persons or bastards shall be admitted into our Assemblies.
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ARTICLE 14.--No coloured person or bastard, nor persons of public bad conduct, or those who have had a discreditable criminal sentence passed on them, nor any non-rehabilitated bankrupts or insolvents whatsoever shall be eligible as members of either Volksraad.
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I felt like The Amazing Robotron and I were standing outside the bat-house, _in_ it but not _of_ it, and we shared a secret insight into the poor, crazy bastards we were cooped up with.
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Jamyn (bastard), illegitimate daughter of Amadis Jamyn, page of Ronsard.'
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He would not have dared to legitimatize his bastard children, had he not been so thoroughly idolized by his greatest heroes and most powerful ministers.
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She brought forth a male child, and loved him and reared him; so that in process of time he took a wife, and from this union sprung the bastard race of Kailouees.
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The least Spanish yellow bastard Daffodil.
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You, Sam, are forgetting that fame which should reflect us in future ages; you, Sam, are assisting those who would lay sullied hands on our pure republicanism--who would sink it in the political slough, and build over it the reeking bastard of a pitiable tyranny.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,025 ~ ~ ~
The club was heterogen'ous By strangers seen as A refuge for destitute _bons mots_-- _Dépôt_ for leaden jokes and pewter pots; Repertory for gin and _jeux d'esprit_, Literary pound for vagrant rapartee; Second-hand shop for left-off witticisms; Gall'ry for Tomkins and Pitt-icisms;[3] Foundling hospital for every bastard pun; In short, a manufactory for all sorts of fun!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,187 ~ ~ ~
And Germain Pilon's compromise with Italian decorativeness, graceful and fertile sculptor as his many works show him to have been, resulted in a lack of personal force that has caused him to be thought on the one hand "seriously injured by the bastard sentiment proper to the school of Fontainebleau," as Mrs. Pattison somewhat sternly remarks, and on the other to be reprehended by Germain Brice in 1718, for evincing _quelque reste du goût gothique_--some reminiscence of Gothic taste.
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Kutchin and Bastard Loucheux at Fort Good Hope 95 Kutchin at Peel River and La Pierre's House 337 Kutchin on the Yukon (six tribes) 842 Nahanie at Fort Good Hope 8 Nahanie at Fort Halkett (including Mauvais Monde, Bastard Nahanie, and Mountain Indians) 332 Nahanie at Fort Liard 38 Nahanie at Fort Norman 43 --- 421 Nahanie at Fort Simpson and Big Island (Hudson Bay Company's Territory) 87 Slave, Dog Rib, and Hare at Fort Simpson and Big Island (Hudson Bay Company's Territory) 658 Slave at Fort Liard 281 Slave at Fort Norman 84 Tenán Kutchin (1877) 700?
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"Language of love, if there are fools and bastards, ah!
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A bastard named Arsames, who might possibly have aspired to the crown, was assassinated by Ochus.
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The cause was the distribution of an order that completed the transformation of the UFO from a bastard son to the family heir.
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'[2] [Footnote 2: _La recherche de la paternité est interdite._ A celebrated clause in the Code Napoleon, whereby a man cannot be made chargeable for a bastard.--TRANSLATOR.]
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A confidential servant of the Count had acted the part of the priest, and the tailor's beautiful daughter had, as a matter of fact, merely been the Count's mistress, and her children were bastards.
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[148:1] Our most religious king had nineteen bastards, but no lawful issue.
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The poor compassionate bastard had kept himself conscious all that extra time, making sure the orbit wouldn't decay, that the converted solar panels and other adjustments he'd made would hold up.
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Another stood guard outside as the earth parted to admit the terrible and magnificent bastard, Shar-hai.
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Unlike Kathlyn, who had Pundita to untangle the intricacies of the bastard Persian, Winnie had to depend wholly upon sign language; and the inmates of the zenana did not give her the respect and attention they had given to Kathlyn.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 251 ~ ~ ~
Morton had not only violated his allegiance to Richard; but had been the chief engine to dethrone him, and to plant a bastard scyon in the throne.
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Why a bastard branch of Lancaster, matched with a bastard of York, were obtruded on the nation as the right heirs of the crown!
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Edward earl of Warwick, his nephew, and son of the duke of Clarence, was in his power too, and no indifferent rival, if king Edward's children were bastards.
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"Also it appeareth that all the issue of the said king Edward be bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance, by the law and custom of England."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 699 ~ ~ ~
Had Edward the Fifth been dead, would not the act indubitably have run thus, were and be bastards.
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No, says the act, all the issue are bastards.
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Richard had set them aside as bastards, and thence had a title to the crown; but Henry was himself the issue of a bastard line, and had no title at all.
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On one side he had no blood royal, on the other only bastard blood.
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Among them can seldom be noticed in literal fact-- The graceless action of a heavy hand-- which the Bastard metaphorically condemns in King John.
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The two friends are Philip Christian and Pete Quilliam: Philip talented, accomplished, ambitious, of good family, and eager to win back the social position which his father had lost by an imprudent marriage; Pete a nameless boy--the bastard son of Philip's uncle and a gawky country-girl--ignorant, brave, simple-minded, and incurably generous.
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But others were of high family, as any need be, in Devon--Carews, and Bouchiers, and Bastards, and some of these would turn sometimes, and strike the boy that kicked them.
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Here he sat down with tears in his eyes, and called for a little mulled bastard.
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She did not understand Italian, but, under the guidance of a competent master, she memorized the unknown words, pronunciation and all, so perfectly that no one suspected but that she was perfectly conversant with the liquid accents of that "soft bastard Latin" of the South.
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Soon the ground rose sharply by leaps and bounds, the yellow road swerving to right and left, deep tilted meadows on one side with a screen of birches beyond, and on the other a sloping rabble of timber, whose foliage made up a tattered motley, humble and odd and bastard, yet, with it all, so rich in tender tones and unexpected feats of drapery that Adèle cried that it was a slice of fairyland and sat with her chin on her shoulder, till the road curled up into the depths of a broad pine-wood, through which it cut, thin, and dead straight, and cool, and strangely solemn.
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A bastard son of their father, named Peter, lived with them as squire to the Canon.
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p. 227._ The great yellow Spanish Bastard Daffodil.
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It is not perfect: the colloquialism which truth and art alike demand sinks sometimes, though not in the great scenes, to the confines of a bastard realism.
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These, according to the French abridger of the History of Germany, consisted in creating doctors and notaries, in legitimatizing the bastards of citizens, in crowning poets, in giving dispensations with respect to age, and in other things.
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The children I had brought him he entirely neglected as if they had been bastards.
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Except his bastard by Cleopatra, he had no son; nor was his power so absolute or so quietly settled that he could have a thought of bequeathing the Empire, like a private inheritance, to his sister's grandson, Octavius.
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396._ The greater Bastard Senna with bladders.
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p. 53._ The greater yellow Junquilia, or bastard Daffodil.
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Aristotle saith that a "city cannot consist of bastards;" but whether the Church of God may consist of these men, let their own selves consider.
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I shall separate the mill from Mr. B----'s farm, for his son is too gay a deceiver to inherit both, and place Fletcher in it, who has served me faithfully, and whose wife is a good woman; besides, it is necessary to sober young Mr. B----, or he will people the parish with bastards.
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INDEX Abahai, ruler, 269 Abdication, 92-3, 182, 227, 302 Aborigines, 323 Absolutism, 196, 208, 210, 232 ff., 247 (_see_ Despotism, Dictator, Emperor, Monarchy) Academia Sinica, 307 Academies, 221, 255, 267-8, 272 Administration, 64, 82-4, 138 ff, 142, 144, 154, 170, 173-4, 210; provincial, 85 (_see_ Army, Feudalism, Bureaucracy) Adobe (Mud bricks), 16, 19, 32 Adoptions, 204 Afghanistan, 146-7 Africa, 201, 259 Agriculture, development, 54, 198 ff., 249-50, 275; Origin of, 10, 11; of Shang, 21; shifting (denshiring), 32 (_see_ Wheat, Millet, Rice, Plough, Irrigation, Manure, Canals, Fallow) An Ti, ruler of Han, 92 Ainu, tribes, 9 Ala-shan mountain range, 88 Alchemy, 49, 104 (_see_) Elixir Alexander the Great, 146-7 America, 276, 300 (_see_) United States Amithabha, god, 188 Amur, river, 278 An Chi-yeh, rebel, 293 An Lu-shan, rebel, 184 ff., 189, 195 Analphabetism, 65 Anarchists, 47 Ancestor, cult, 24, 32 Aniko, sculptor, 243 Animal style, 17 Annam (Vietnam), 97, 160, 209, 219, 234, 258, 265, 295, 330 Anyang (Yin-ch'ü), 19, 22 Arabia, 258; Arabs, 104, 178, 183, 185, 266 Architecture, 147, 256 Aristocracy, 25, 26, 36, 122, 195 (_see_ Nobility, Feudalism) Army, cost of, 211; organization of, 24, 118, 174, 236; size of, 53; Tibetan, 127 (_see_ War, Militia, tu-tu, pu-ch'ü) Art, Buddhist, 146-7 (_see_ Animal style, Architecture, Pottery, Painting, Sculpture, Wood-cut) Arthashastra, book, attributed to Kautilya, 59 Artisans, 19, 26, 31, 33, 56, 79; Organizations of, 58 (_see_ Guilds, Craftsmen) Assimilation, 144, 152, 166, 244 (_see_ Colonization) Astronomy, 266 Austroasiats, 10, 12 Austronesians, 12 Avars, tribe, 140 (_see_ Juan-juan) Axes, prehistoric, 10 Axis, policy, 51 Babylon, 65 Baghdad, city, 201 Balasagun, city, 224 Ballads, 133 Banks, 265, 305 Banner organization, 268, 291 Barbarians (Foreigners), 109, 122, 246, 278 Bastards, 41 Bath, 217 Beg, title, 289 Beggar, 239 Bengal, 250, 283 Boat festival, 23 Bokhara (Bukhara), city, 46 Bon, religion, 242 Bondsmen, 31, 117, 143 (_see pu-ch'ü_, Serfs, Feudalism) Book, printing, 201; B burning, 66 Böttger, inventor, 256 Boxer rebellion, 299 Boycott, 314 Brahmans, Indian caste, 34, 106 Brain drain, 326 Bronze, 17, 20, 22, 29, 33, 40, 106, 180-1 (_see_ Metal, Copper) Brothel (Tea-house), 163, 217 Buddha, 46; Buddhism, 20, 106, 108-9, 125, 127, 133 ff., 145 ff., 150, 161, 164, 168, 178, 179 ff., 188, 217, 218, 236, 257, 259, 266, 306 (_see_ Ch'an, Vinaya, Sects, Amithabha, Maitreya, Hinayana, Mahayana, Monasteries, Church, Pagoda, Monks, Lamaism) Budget, 168, 175, 209, 210, 215, 261 (_see_ Treasury, Inflation, Deflation) Bullfights, 182 Bureaucracy, 24, 33, 63, 72; religious B, 25 (_see_ Administration; Army) Burgher (_liang-min_), 143, 183, 216 Burma, 12, 146, 234, 248, 265, 269, 283, 318, 319, 322, 329, 330 Businessmen, 64 (_see_ Merchants, Trade) Byzantium, 177 Calcutta, city, 283 Caliph (Khaliph), 185 Cambodia, 234, 295 Canals, 170, 246; Imperial C, 168, 235-6 (_see_ Irrigation) Cannons, 232, 263 Canton (Kuang-chou), city, 67, 77, 89, 97, 159, 190, 209, 237, 262, 266, 286, 287, 308, 309, 312, 314 Capital of Empire, 144 (_see_ Ch'ang-an, Si-an, Lo-yang, etc.)
~ ~ ~ Sentence 251 ~ ~ ~
_Having remained unmarried until she was thirty years of age, Rolandine, recognising her father's neglect and her mistress's disfavour, fell so deeply in love with a bastard gentleman that she promised him marriage; and this being told to her father he treated her with all the harshness imaginable, in order to make her consent to the dissolving of the marriage; but she continued steadfast in her love until she had received certain tidings of the Bastard's death, when she was wedded to a gentleman who bore the same name and arms as did her own family_.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 274 ~ ~ ~
Now, when she was approaching her thirtieth year, there was at Court a gentleman who was a Bastard of a high and noble house; (4) he was one of the pleasantest comrades and most worshipful men of his day, but he was wholly without fortune, and possessed of such scant comeliness that no lady would have chosen him for her lover.
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4 One cannot absolutely identify this personage; but judging by what is said of him in the story--that he came of a great house, that he was very brave but poor, neither rich enough to marry Rolandine nor handsome enough to be made a lover of, and that a lady, who was a near relative of his, came to the Court after his intrigue had been going on for a couple of years--he would certainly appear to be John, Bastard of Angoulôme, a natural son of Count John the Good, and consequently half-brother to Charles of Angoulôme ( who married Louise of Savoy) and uncle to Francis I. and Queen Margaret.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 277 ~ ~ ~
i. p. 210 B. there is a record of the letters of legitimisation granted to the Bastard of Angoulême at his father's request in June 1458, and M. Paul Lacroix points out that if Rolandine's secret marriage to him took place in or about 1508, he would then have been about fifty years old, hardly the age for a lover.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 278 ~ ~ ~
The Bastard is, however, alluded to in the tale as a man of mature years, and as at the outset of the intrigue (1505) he would have been but forty-seven, we incline with M. de Lincy to the belief that he is the hero of it.--Eu.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 281 ~ ~ ~
Those who had known Rolandine so very retiring that she would speak to none, were now greatly shocked on seeing her unceasingly with the well-born Bastard, and told her governess that she ought not to suffer their long talks together.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 288 ~ ~ ~
The Bastard came to talk with her according to his wont, but she told him everything that her governess had said to her, and, shedding tears, besought him to have no converse with her for a while, until the rumour should be past and gone; and to this he consented at her request.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 291 ~ ~ ~
The well-born Bastard was no better off; but, as he had already resolved in his heart to love her and try to wed her, and had thought not only of his love but of the honour that it would bring him if he succeeded in his design, he reflected that he must devise a means of making his love known to her and, above all, of winning the governess to his side.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 294 ~ ~ ~
They planned that Rolandine should often feign to suffer from headache, to which noise is exceedingly distressful; so that, when her companions went into the Queen's apartment, she and the Bastard might remain alone, and in this way hold converse together.
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The Bastard was overjoyed at this, and, guiding himself wholly by the governess's advice, had speech with his sweetheart whensoever he would.
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Some one replied that it was on account of sickness, but another, who possessed too good a memory for the absent, declared that the pleasure she took in speaking with the Bastard must needs cause her headache to pass away.
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The Queen, who deemed the venial sins of others to be mortal ones in Rolandine, sent for her and forbade her ever to speak to the Bastard except it were in the royal chamber or hall.
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But, in spite of all their secrecy, a serving-man saw the Bastard go into the room one fast day, and reported the matter in a quarter where it was not concealed from the Queen.
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The latter was so wroth that the Bastard durst enter the ladies' room no more.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 321 ~ ~ ~
To this the Bastard readily agreed, whereupon they exchanged rings in token of marriage, and kissed each other in the church in the presence of God, calling upon Him to witness their promise; and never afterwards was there any other familiarity between them save kissing only.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 323 ~ ~ ~
There was scarcely any place where honour might be won to which the Bastard did not go, rejoicing that he could not now continue a poor man, seeing that God had bestowed on him a rich wife; and she during his absence steadfastly cherished their perfect love, and made no account of any other living man.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 325 ~ ~ ~
(6) 6 The speeches of Rolandine and the Bastard should be compared with some of Clement Marot's elegies, notably with one in which he complains of having been surprised while conversing with his mistress in a church.--B.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 329 ~ ~ ~
When the wars were over, (7) and the Bastard had returned to Court, she never spoke to him in presence of others, but always repaired to some church and there had speech with him under pretence of going to confession; for the Queen had forbidden them both, under penalty of death, to speak together except in public.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 330 ~ ~ ~
But virtuous love, which recks naught of such a ban, was more ready to find them means of speech than were their enemies to spy them out; the Bastard disguised himself in the habit of every monkish order he could think of, and thus their virtuous intercourse continued, until the King repaired to a pleasure house he had near Tours.
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But if one opportunity failed them, love found them another and an easier one, for there came to the Court a lady to whom the Bastard was near akin.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 348 ~ ~ ~
She, having many times observed the young Prince at his window, made this known to the Bastard through her governess; and he, having made careful observation of the place, feigned to take great pleasure in reading a book about the Knights of the Round Table (10) which was in the Prince's room.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 354 ~ ~ ~
She likewise set herself to work a coverlet of crimson silk, (11) and fastened it at the window, where she desired to be alone; and, when she saw that none was by, she would converse with her husband, who contrived to speak in such a voice as could not be overheard; and whenever any one was coming, she would cough and make a sign, so that the Bastard might withdraw in good time.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 363 ~ ~ ~
The servant replied that he marvelled even more that people accounted sensible and of mature age should have a still greater liking for it than the young; and he told her, as matter for wonderment, how her cousin the Bastard would spend four or five hours each day in reading this fine book.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 364 ~ ~ ~
Straightway there came into the lady's mind the reason why he acted thus, and she charged the servant to hide himself somewhere, and take account of what the Bastard might do.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 365 ~ ~ ~
This the man did, and found that the Bastard's book was the window to which Rolandine came to speak with him, and he, moreover, heard many a love-speech which they had thought to keep wholly secret.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 366 ~ ~ ~
On the morrow he related this to his mistress, who sent for the Bastard, and after chiding him forbade him to return to that place again; and in the evening she spoke of the matter to Rolandine, and threatened, if she persisted in this foolish love, to make all these practices known to the Queen.
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