But that she will do so, you know as well as I.It is, therefore, for me only a humiliation which etiquette imposes when she compels me to stand here and wait to see whether I shall be chosen, or contemptuously thrust aside." "Why will you look at matters in so unfriendly a light ?" said Cranmer, gently.

"Wherefore will you consider it a mark of contempt, if you are not chosen to an office to which, indeed, neither merit nor worthiness can call us, but only the personal confidence of a young woman ?" "Oh! you admit that I shall not be chosen ?" cried Gardiner, with a malicious smile.
"I have already told you that I am wholly uninformed as to the queen's wish, and I think it is known that the Bishop of Canterbury is wont to speak the truth." "Certainly that is known, but it is known also that Catharine Parr was a warm admirer of the Bishop of Canterbury; and now that she has gained her end and become queen, she will make it her duty to show her gratitude to him." "You would by that insinuate that I have made her queen.

But I assure your highness, that here also, as in so many other matters which relate to myself, you are falsely informed." "Possibly!" said Gardiner, coldly.

"At any rate, it is certain that the young queen is an ardent advocate of the abominable new doctrine which, like the plague, has spread itself from Germany over all Europe and scattered mischief and ruin through all Christendom.

Yes, Catharine Parr, the present queen, leans to that heretic against whom the Holy Father at Rome has hurled his crushing anathema.